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specimens per tree, and some of those showed fro.st marks. Many 

 of the older orchard trees, or such of them as did not bear heavily 

 the previous year, bore heavj- crops. Those bearing- the best and 

 that carried their fruit to maturity were the Tetofskj', Oldenburg^, 

 McMahon White, Wealthy, Plumb Cider, Haas, Perry Russet, Utter, 

 Ostalk}', Antonovka and a few seedling-s; and of the Siberians, 

 Transcendent, Hyslop. Alaska, Pride of Minneapolis, Orange and 

 an unknown variety-. Some other varieties of Russian origin started 

 in for a full crop but continued to droj) off during the entire sum- 

 mer and eventually none came to full maturity. The varieties were 

 the Autumn Streaked (which is also a terrible blighter), Early Glass, 

 Red, Yellow, Striped and Kourk Auis; the onlj' one of the Auis 

 found doing fairly well is the Russian Green. With us thej- have been 

 behaving in this manner for several years. The fruit is hardly me- 

 dium in qualit)-, and none of them are good keepers, and we pro- 

 nounce them as unworthy of cultivation in southeastern Minnesota. 

 True. we cannot tell what they may do as the trees get older, but for 

 the first fifteen years after planting one Oldenburg or Wealthy tree 

 will bring more fruit than anj- six Anis that we have so far tried. 

 The Arabian fruited with us this year for the first time. The fruit 

 is large and show}-, hangs to the tree well and will doubtless rank 

 high for cooking. Season, earl}' winter. The trees appear to be 

 hardy and healthy and very free from blight. One tree of Peterson's 

 No. .1, a seedling from the Hibernal, fruited this year at four years 

 old. It promises to be better fruit than the Hibernal. 



In the orchard grounds set apart expressly for the experiment 

 station, about 50 trees were planted in 181K), 50 in ISIU, (50 in 18l»2, 30 in 

 1893, 30 in 1894, 130 in 1895, making a total of 350. Of this number not 

 a single tree has been injured by sunscald. Trees that failed to 

 live have been re-set with same varieties. In ISVK), but one failed 

 to live; in 1891 and 1892, one failed to live; one in 1893, and four 

 were killed by borers; in 1S94 two died; and in 1895 about twenty 

 died or are in a condition that makes them worthless — these 

 were l»adly root-killed in the nursery before being taken up. A 

 tree that has been injured in the roots should not be disturbed 

 until it has had time to make plenty of new roots. The principal 

 varieties are Red Oueen, Zuzoff, North Star, Early Duchess, Long- 

 field, Arabian, Lord's Apple, Patten's Greening, Iowa Beauty, 

 OstrekotT, Adaline, Sweet Pipka, Skrout German, Okabeua. Stepka, 

 Antonovka, Noble Red Streak, Yellow Sweet, Revel Glass, No. 515, 

 3m. '.V)fii, G4ver, or Muscatel, Allen's Favorite, Saccharine, Gruskovka 

 Slandka, No. 105fi, Dairy, Hofchkiss, Peerless, Blue Anis, Borsdolt- 

 Clark's Orange, Red Betenheimer, Garden, Gettman, 3T, Borovinka. 

 Wax, Nathan's Russot, Jenny, Johnston, Wis. Spy. Victor, Pearce'* 

 Unknown, Czar's Thorn, Peterlioff, Vinesse, Catharine, Anisette, 

 Holdfast, Ostrohoe, Vasil's Largest, G. Swedenser, Miller's Jannett, 

 Romna, 2<)m, Wilcox No. 2, Roman Stem, Wolf River, Northwest- 

 ern Greening-, Mary, Peterson No. 5, Sandy Glass, No. 2'24, Golden 

 Reinette, Sklonka, Good Peasant, BoydonotT, Cros«, Murphy's Green- 

 ing, Repka, (Gilbert, Newell, Raspberry, McGowan, Philip's No. 1 

 and No. 3, Christmas, Arista, Dabold, CharlamoU, Brett No. 1, 



