880 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
ROMNA GROUP. 
Romna 599; Romenskoe. The large, round, green winter apples a 
as grown by Mr, Tuttle of Wisconsin under name of Romenskoe, | 
will hereafter be known as the true Romna, This settles the matter 
definitely, as Hibernal has been mixed with Romna as originally 
sent out from Russia. 
TRANSPARENT GROUP. 
Yellow Transparent; No. 60; White Transparent; Red Duck (spur- 
jous); Charlottenthaler; Enthaler; Thaler; Erdbeer Streifling; Nitch- 
ner’s Erdbeer. 
ANIS GROUP. 
Anis; No. 317; 985, Kursk Anis; Red Anis; 32 M; Russian Green; 
Blue Anis; Yellow Anis; Pink Anis; Striped Anis; Getman. The 
Anis is a small apple and appears of value only in latiindes where 
extreme hardiness is essential. 
GOLDEN WHITE GROUP. 
Large Long White, 979, of Tuttle and Mitchell; Golden White, 978, 
of Tuttle and Mitchell; White Russet, 981, of Tuttle and Mitchell; 
’ No. 4, Orel, of Budd; No. 5, Orel, of Budd; No. 56, Vor (spurious); 
Winter Stripe; 15, Department, of Patten. The name does not de- 
scribe the apple but is adopted until the true name can be ascer- 
tained, if possible, from Russian pomologists. 
Switzer was moved to be struck off the list as being too subject to 
blight and the decision sent to the American Pomological Society 
for use in revising its next list. 
Descriptions were made and adopted of all the apples named, also 
of the following: Long Arcade, Bode, Lubsk Queen, Ostrakoff 4 M, 
Vargulek 12 M, Sweet Longfield 20 M (Kursk Reinette a synonym), 
Beautiful Arcade (Repka Kislaya of Speer a synonym). 
A WISCONSIN LIST. 
Mr. Tuttle, of Baraboo, named the following as the best six of 
those he has tested, the varieties being in the order of their value: 
Longfield, a great annual bearer; Anisim; Antonovka; Beautiful» 
Arcade, for sweet; Lowland Raspberry, for best early quality; 
Repka Malenka, for late keeping. 
A SELECTED SHORT LIST. 
The Minnesota State Horticultural Society varies this list. At 
their December meeting only three varieties were recommended for 
general cultivation, Duchess, Hibernal and Charlamoff, with several 
in the list for further trial. 
The general consensus of opinion of the commission tended 
strongly in favor of a short list, especially Hibernal, Duchess, Char- 
lamoff, Anisim, Yellow Sweet, Repka Malenka, Longfield, Cross and 
Christmas. This will simplify matters for the average planter. 
Meanwhile a host of seedlings have arisen all over Wisconsin 
Minnesota and Iowa since the hard winter of 1884-85, and are attract- 
ing favorable attention, and it will take another winter such as that 
