206 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



L. E. DAY'S SEEDLING WINTER APPLE. 



J. S. HARRIS, SEEDLING COMMITTEE. 



An apple shown at the late winter meeting of the horticultural 

 society, December, 1896, grown by L. E. Day, Farmington, and 

 awarded first premium as best seedling winter apple on exhibition. 

 Size, full medium; form, smooth round ovate; color, yellowish 

 ground, mostly covered with carmine red in faint stripes and a 

 bluish bloom over all, and the skin quite thickly sprinkled with 

 rather large, irregular, brown russet dots; stalk, long, medium thick- 



ness, elastic, set in a regular medium deep, narrow, russeted cavity; 

 calyx, closed; basin, small, medium, shallow, smooth; core, medium, 

 nearly closed; flesh, fine grained, rich greenish-yellow, firm, juicy; 

 flavor, subacid, good; season, late winter. 



If the tree proves hardy enough to endure our climate, it will be a 

 most valuable acquisition; if not entirely hardy but near enough to 

 produce healthy blossoms and perfect its fruit, it should prove very 

 desirable as a pollenizer to use on the hardiest Russians to produce 

 seedlings of fine appearance, good quality and long keepers. We 

 understand that it has no pedigree but is a root sprout from a tree 

 that killed to the ground in a recent severe winter. 



The first step in the enrichment of unproductive land is to improve 

 its physical condition by means of careful and thorough tillage, by 

 the addition of humus (by applying barn manures, plowing in 

 green crops, etc.) and, perhaps, by under-drainage. It must first be 

 put in such condition that plants can grow on it. After that, the 

 addition of chemical fertilizers may pay by giving additional or 

 redundant growth. Prof. H. L. Bailey. 



