290 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
season from cuttings planted in the spring. It flourishes in poor, 
dry soil where grass will not grow and in connection with lilacs, 
bush honeysuckles and caraganas, offers an excellent means of 
covering slopes in cuts and along embankments, where lawn grass 
cannot be induced to grow. 
We havea great admiration for the dwarf almond (Amygdalus 
nana), one of our hardiest shrubs, imported by Prof. Budd from 
Russia. It producesa profusion of pink flowers early in spring, but 
so far we have not gathered any almonds from it. This shrub is of 
the easiest culture and ought to bein every flower border on the 
prairies. 
WINDOM TRIAL STATION. 
DEWAIN COOK, SUPT. 
bruit trees, as a rule, came out this spring allright. Raspberry 
bushes were mostly killed to the ground, and the raspberry crop is 
a total failure. 
The strawberry crop was extra fine, the heaviest one we ever 
had. The Bederwood, Warfield, Crescent and Enhance were mostly 
grown. The Bederwood holds its large size and productiveness re- 
markably well on old beds, excelling the others in this respect. It 
is apparently all the variety needed for the home garden. I think 
that the Warfield was in the lead on beds fruiting for the first time. 
The dwarf Juneberry bore an excellent crop as usual,and was 
much admired by visitors. It has proved to be a most reliable 
fruiter. 
Cherry trees set in for a big crop, but the fruit kept dropping 
until there were but few to get ripe; 23 Oriel gave us some fine fruit. 
Currants are almost a failure, the Long Bunch Holland being the 
only variety that is giving us any satisfaction this summer. They 
are very late. We will not gather the fruit for a week or ten days 
yet. 
Plums will be only a light crop; still some varieties, like the New 
Ulm, Ro6llingstone, Rockford, Desota, Wolf, Mankato, Blackhawk, 
and Wood are bearing a full crop. My small trees of the Aitkin 
plum have some fine fruitonthem. Iam more pleased than ever 
with this variety. The Cheney and many other varieties were a fail- 
ure from plum pockets. I believe that some of my plum trees had 
ten bushels of plum pockets on each tree. 
Apples will not bea heavy crop. The Okabena, Wealthy, Bres- 
kovka, Duchess and Tetofsky are bearing fairly well. In crabs the 
Florence,and E. Stawberry are bearing full. We have the little green 
leaf hopper bad here. They are everywhere, but no damage is 
noticed except on the foliage of the apple trees. The Soulard crab 
seems to be proof against their attacks, also some other varieties to 
a certain extent. 
We have had plenty of moisture in the ground up to this time. 
July 16, 1898. 
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