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kinds and are sufferinjif from this unwise and unnatural treatment. 

 We have earnestly recommended that every hoof be kept out of the 

 proves and shelter trees, but have been somewhat in doubt as to 

 the injury that the hog- might do. While at Pipestone, we were very 

 glad to learn the experience of Mr. A. E. Gilmore on this point. He 

 had enclosed a portion of his line grove of box elder and ash with 

 his hog pasture, and had observed during the past season that the 

 foliage of the i)ortion so pastured had a distinctly yellow and poor 

 look in comparison with the rest of the grove. 



REPORT ON SEEDLINGS, APRIL 1, 1896. 



J. 6. IIAKKI.S. 

 IJUTTERMOKE'S SEEDLING APPLE. 



At the late meeting of the State Horticultural Society held in Min- 

 neapolis, a fine plate of seedling apples was exhibited by Robert H. 

 Buttermore, of Lake City, Minn. We learn from Mr. B., that the 

 tree producing them is about twenty-four years old and has been 

 bearing fifteen or sixteen j'ears and, he thinks, has not missed a 

 single crop in that tiine. On j'ears when he has had but few Duchess 

 or other kinds, this seedling has produced good crops of nice fruit. 

 It has never shown any blight, and he considers it the hardiest tree 

 on his place. It was not affected by the frosts of the last two years 

 like his other hardy varieties. I examined a specimen of the apples 

 about the 20th of February. The size was (6), or large medium; form 

 roundish oblate;color green, overspread with thin brownish red with 

 a few brighter red splashes on the sun side; stem short, medium 

 elastic, set in a broad, inediuin deep cavity, greenish russeted at the 

 bottom; calyx closed, in a broad, medium deep, irregularly wrinkled 

 basin; flesh yellowish green, nearly fine; flavor pleasant acid; core 

 small and closed; season, probably January to March. The buds 

 and young wood do not show the slightest injury or discoloration 

 from the last winter. 



THE OKABENA APPLE. 



I received a box of specimens of the above variety from President 

 Underwood on March 12th that were in line condition. He writes 

 that they were picked and put into cold storage for a time, but for 

 the last three months were kept in boxes in a dry cellar. The Oka- 

 bena is one of our moat beautiful apples. Size, from medium to 

 large; form smooth, oblate; color yellowish green, pinky and crim- 

 son in stripes and splashes; core small; flesh j-ellowish white, fine; 

 flavor pleasant, sub-acid. The tree is a strong S3'mmetrical grower. 

 Origin, Worthington, Minn., from seed procured of Peter M. Gideon, 

 of Excelsior. 



NATIVE I'LUM, UklTTLE WOOD SO. 1. 

 We learn from the originator, Theo. Williams, Bensen, Neb., that 

 the Brittlewood plum mentioned on page 380, luagazine for October, 

 1S95, is a pure P. Americana, and hence it ought to prove hard}' over 

 the whole Northwest. He has never propagated the variety for sale. 

 He writes that he has some other seedlings and some hybrids that 

 promise to be very valuable, and promised to furnish samples of 

 the fruit in its season. 



