

" I g'et a great deal of pleasure and useful informatiora froiu the 

 Horticulturist and do not want to do without it. 



Evansville, Wis., Nov. 18, 189G. C. J. Doolittle." 



" Your raagfazine is indispensible for any amateur fruit grower in 

 this part of the country, and I would keep it even if it cost $2.00. 



Respectfully yours, 

 Portland, Traill Co., N. Dak., Nov. 21, 1896. K. J. LUCKEN." 



A New Horticultural Building needed. — "It has seemed to 

 •nie that with the standing our agricultural school has among the 

 institutions of the same kind in the United States and the reputa- 

 tion Prof. Green has as authority on horticultural subjects, that the 

 horticultural feature of the experiment farm should have better 

 advantages. The agriculturists have good barns, stock, creamery 

 and seem to be well fixed clear down to the chicken house. Now 

 we should by all means have a horticultural building." 



J. P. Andrews," 

 Faribault, Dec. 18, 1896. 



A Correction.— On page 483 of the December number of the Mag- 

 azine, I am quoted as saying in regard to the sand cherry, that I 

 grafted several native plums on the sand cherry, which is a mistake. 

 I meant to give as a reason why the sand cherry should be called a 

 plum, that I had top-grafted the plum with, not on the sand cherrj' 

 and succeeded, and had grafted several Ostheim cherry trees and 

 other cherry trees with the sand cherry, and not one of the grafts 

 grew, showing that the sand cherry, so-called, has a nearer affinity 

 with the plum than with the cherry. 



Minnesota City, Dec. 3, 1896. O. M. Lord. 



"I raised two hundred and pixty-one barrels of Duchess apples 

 and one hundred and seventy-eight barrels of Trans, crabs, besides 

 some Wealthy apples and some Strawberry crabs. My Duchess 

 were all hand picked from the 23d to the 28th of July and shipped in 

 refrigerator cars to Duluth and Minneapolis; we only got from six- 

 ty-five to seventy-five cents per barrel besides commission. Thus 

 a fruit crop carefully picked and handled only paid expenses. 

 I have done but little better with my Trans . 



C. L. Blair.' 



St. Charles, Minn., Nov. 21, 1896. 



What Can Be Done With This Orchard? "I hope the cold 

 has not hurt fruit in Minnesota as I fear it has done here. It 

 seems that the frost caught the trees before the sap had gone 

 down. The inner bark next to the wood has turned a brown and 

 sometimes a dead black. This is more apparent on the south- 

 west side of the trunk. My employer wants to know if the trees 

 are killed and if there is any way of renewing his orchard ex- 

 cept replanting. This is a new experience for this country, and I 



