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Green Mountain (Winchell). — White, very early; berries drop from 

 the stem, and it is not a good shipper. 



Herbert (Rogers No. 44). — Black, sweet, tender and delicious; early 

 and productive; one of the best of the Rogers. 



lona. — Red; a fine grape of excellent quality. Ripens about with 

 the Concord. It is subject to mildew in many localities and not 

 reliable for general vineyard culture, but very fine for the table. 

 We have no trouble in ripening them at Minnetonka. 



Mills. — Black, very weak grower, ripens about with Concord; 

 bunch and berries large; quality good. 



Moore's Diamond. — Color white; bunch and berries large; healthy, 

 strong grower and hardy; quality excellent. 



Woodruff Red. — Very large and handsome; color red; strong 

 grower; very healthy and hardy; quality fair. Its blossom is a few 

 days later than the Concord. 



We have several more varieties that have not fruited yet, some of 

 which we think quite 'promising. All young vines should have 

 some kind of mulch put over the roots besides the dirt the first two 

 or three winters. 



EXCELSIOR TRIAL STATION. 



H. M. LYMAN, SUPT. 



This has been a fruitful year for apples in this vicinity, though 

 most of the smaller trees on trial failed to produce fruit; many of 

 them blossomed, but an insect, a kind of fly, seemed to destroy the 

 blossom. Those trees are now well filled with blossom buds, which 

 looks encouraging for a crop another year. 



The smaller plum trees also blossomed out full, both Russian and 

 American varieties, but did not produce fruit, while the wild plums 

 bore a full crop. I see that the Cheney blights some on the end of 

 the limbs, which is the only variety of plum that I have noticed to 

 blight. 



My Russian apple trees nearly all look finely and show very little 

 blight among them this year. Among the hardiest I will mention 

 the Charlamoff, Borovinka, Anisim, Red Repka (No. 200) and No. 

 599. In my last year's report, I mentioned Hibernal as blighting 

 badly; this year they have not blighted and are looking well. With 

 me the Longfield is subject to blight and is not quite hardy enough 

 for this latitude. The Good Peasant holds its leaves well into the 

 winter, which is rather against it for planting so far north as this. 



A winter like our last, with no snow, requires a tree upon hardy 

 roots. I lost several thousand in nursery rows from root-killing. 

 Patton's Greening has done very w^ell with me, though it has 

 blighted some. I have two trees which have been planted four 

 years; one has produced a few quite large apples. I have also a few 

 Peerless trees; some are top-worked on Siberian stock, and two of 

 them bore a few large apples of fairly good quality. The tree is a 

 rapid grower and thus far free from blight, but does not ripen its 

 wood as early in the fall as it should to be perfectly adapted to this 



