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ONG THE ORCHARDS OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. 107 2 
Glass (21 M)isan upright grower here and doing well. A tree of 
Karabovka, a small sweet apple of extra good quality, is promising: 
Chas. Sundberg, living close by Frank Sundberg, has a good 
orchard of many well selected kinds, including Duchess, Wealthy 
and Briar Sweet. The Wealthy is doing particularly well. The 
trees measure 24 in. in circumference and Duchess about the same, : 
The fruit of the Wealthy is very large and highly colored. He 
marketed 200 bushels of these two varieties this year. Duchess sold 
at one dollar per bushel this year and eighty cents in 1896. One 
_ Duchess tree bore ten bushels one year. The Briar Sweet is doing 
particularly well, trees 10 in. in diameter. Tetofsky bears well, and 
the trees are good. Whitney has not borne much. Okabena is do- 
ing well and bearing heavily. He has a young orchard of Hibernal 
and other Russians. 
The Weaver plums are spotted and small while the Ocheeda is 
fair, bears heavily and sells well. It looks very nice this year. He 
; also has many seedling plums. The Columbian raspberry is doing 
__—-well, and the Loudon is doing remarkably well. 
4 One year he used salt on his wheat, and it stood six inches higher 
and yielded nearly twice as much as that not salted. ah, 
a From Worthington we took the train for Luverne. After supper 
__-we went to Blue Mounds, a distance of six miles, on our wheels and 
__ then called on Mr. C. KE. Older. 
: Mr. Older lives in Luverne and hasa nursery there. He isa pleas- 
ant, progressive man and carries a good stock of trees and shrubs, 
including Picea pungens, Pinus ponderosa and cut-leaved birch. 
He says there is no demand for the cottonwood, and that he has 
not sold any for several seasons. Near his nursery is a thick row of ; + 
honey locust set about 1876. Some of the trees are five inches ; 
through, but most of them have killed out. A few are sprouting 
from the roots. Osage Orange planted about the same time grew 
‘six feet high and died. Mr. Older says there are many good timber 
claims in Pipestone county; that those of ash and elm have been 
successful but those of cottonwood have generally failed. West of 
the Sioux bottoms there is not a good timber claim of cottonwood, 
but there are many of ash and elm. 
Mr. Older drove us to W. O. Preston’s place, four miles north of 
Luverne. Mr. Preston has trees of Haas, Duchess and Malinda per- 
fectly sound and healthy, and bearing well. Malinda trees were 30 
_ in.in circumference. He is troubled with sunscald. It seems to be 
__—soworse in this vicinity than around Worthington and Windom. 
y From Mr. Preston’s place Mr. Older took us to the place of George 
Jacobs. Here we found a nice orchard, containing many of our 
best varieties. The Milton crab here seems to be tie same as the 
Milan of Ludlow’s. The trees are6 in. in diameter, and planted 15 ft. 
_ -aparteach way. There is some blight on many kinds, but it is not 
- gerious. The Sweet Russet crab is a perfect tree in every respect. 
It does not blight, but.is healthy and a good bearer. Trees about 
21 in. in circumference. Mr. Older says it can not be recommended 
too highly for this section. Mr. Jacobs has no apple for which he 
