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roots, that would succeed better and make better fruit than by 

 any other process of propagation. These are things that 

 ought to be brought out and made positive facts through the 

 experiment station, and given to the world by the horticultural 

 society through its bulletins. 



Mr. Knudson is one of my regular correspondents, and he 

 sends me specimens of every new fruit he gets. Speaking of 

 a choke-cherry, he sent me samples of two distinct varieties, if 

 not of two distinct species. One variety had a bunch seven 

 inches long, the other was a short cluster like currants; but 

 they were larger than currants, a half i nch in diameter, and 

 both of them so free from that puckery taste that you can eat 

 them freely and with a relish. I immediately wrote to him 

 that he ought to get them out, and he stated that this long 

 bunch variety was a seedling that he raised, and he promised 

 to send me seed; he did send me some, but I lost it. I do not 

 know that Mr. Knudson has ever been a member of our soci- 

 ety, but he is a useful man, and there are a great many that we 

 ought to get identified with this society. He is a Dane by birth, 

 and he is introducing new varieties of fruit to try them. He 

 is growing a gooseberry that is very valuable, and the last 

 thing I heard he had got a plum the size of a Morello cherry 

 that is good and very productive; perhaps there is something 

 in that that we might use on our sand cherry and give us an- 

 other new fruit. I believe there is no other point in the paper 

 that I want to mention. 



Mr. Wedge: I will state in regard to grafting on the sand 

 cherry that I used about 1000 stocks this spring, grafting them 

 on the Desota, Cheney, Rollingstone and Rockford. The De- 

 sota and Cheney made an excellent stand, the Rollingstone a 

 A-ery poor stand, indeed, and the Rockford also a very poor stand. 

 We grafted at the same time and gave all the same treatment; 

 but I think there is a marked difference in varieties working 

 •on the sand cherry. 



Prof. Hansen: How were they grafted? 



Mr. Wedge: By side-grafting in the root. 



Prof. Hansen: Do you use wedge-shaped scions? 



Mr. Wedge: Yes, sir. 



Mr. Z. K. Jewett: I would like to state something that has been 

 found of benefit. In different places people have planted their 

 plum trees in groves and fenced them in and put their fowls in, 

 and wherever I have seen that, they have always had a good 

 crop of plums. They claimed it was a benefit in the way of 



