178 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The winter of '92-3, while not a very cold one, was just cold enough 

 to freeze the tip ends of the half-hardj^ varieties of trees, that had 

 been escaping the previous mild winters. 



APPLES. 



The crop the past season was about a failure, only a few trees 

 bearing any apples. I am unable to state the cause. The date of 

 bloom, which was scanty, was from the third to the fifth of June. 



We have something over 100 varieties of apple and crab trees, yet 

 for this non-fruiting season we can report little in regard to 

 them. The trees mostly made a very good growth, and we had little 

 blight compared with some other seasons. We grubbed out on 

 account of blight this past summer all the Transcendent and Lake 

 Winter, as well as Green Streaked (177) and some of Dean's seedlings. 

 My Red Duck trees blighted badlj', and, perhaps, I should have dug 

 them tip also. Aside from these varieties we had no blight at this 

 station to speak of; but about all varieties, more e.specially the 

 American seedlings and the Siberian hybrids, were affected some 

 bj' a leaf fungus, probably the leaf scab; and it is evident that for 

 best results we must do some spraying. 



Out of some 275 Wealthy apple trees, I fail to find an}' wood that 

 was killed back in the least last winter, but the growth was some- 

 what discolored. The Wealthy apple has given the best satisfaction 

 of all in this section. The Duchess showed itself hardier than the 

 Wealthy, as I failed to find any discolored wood; but the ends of 

 many of the new growth looked rather pith}'. 



>Iy notes show that the following varieties of apple trees were free 

 from discoloration, and the ends of the new growth firmer last spring 

 than the Duchess, viz., Florence, Excelsior, Pointed Reipka, Vir- 

 ginia Crab, Romna, 5 Oriel, Yellow Arcadian, Ostrekoff, Kremer 

 Glass, Yellow Fawn, No 272, Breskovka, Hibernal, Rosy Aport and 

 Champain Pippin. 



The following varieties show wood equal or about equal to the 

 Duchess, viz.. Little Hat, Duchover, Martha, Borovinka, Tetofski, 107, 

 181, Red Duck, Compton's seedling No. 3, Bagdanoff, Antonovka, 

 Juicy White, Beechers Sweet, Minnesota, Early Strawberry and 

 Russian Calville. 



The following varieties show wood £is good or nearlj' as good as 

 the Wealthy, viz., Rollins Pippin, Pattens Greening, Scotts Winter, 

 Sweet Ada crab. Pride ot Minneapolis, No. 46, and Grundy of the 

 Thoinpson's seedlings, Whitney, Grandmother, Thaler, Cross and 

 Compton's seedling No. 1. 



I have quite a few Minnesota seedlings besides these enumerated 

 in the above list, but as none of them appear to be as hard}' as the 

 Wealthy, and some of them sunscald and blight badly (at my 

 neighbors), I think we should let them drop from public view. , 



PLUMS. 



This is my favorite fruit. While the crop the past season was not 



large, it was fair. The average date of bloom was May 29th; the 



earliest ripening was the Chene}', Sept. 2nd, followed by the Forest 



Garden, Sept 9th, the Wolf. Sept. 12th, the Desota, Sept. 14th. The 



