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Miller's Greening, Prolitic and Pippin were among^ the beat of them. 

 (), M. Lord, of Winona county, showed a choice lot of seedling-e, and 

 the Holt's Peach received the highest award as the best autumn 

 apple. Other exhibitors of seedlings were the Jewell Nursery 

 Company, of Lake City; Harris, of La Crescent; Day and Parker, of 

 Farmington; Howard, of Hammond; Pearce, of Chowan, and some 

 others. The highest award for winter seedling was given to a 

 variety shown b^' Mr. Pearce. We failed to secure a specimen of it 

 to make a description from. Some very fine seedlings of Siberian 

 hybrids were shown. Among them Lyman's Prolific is worthy of 

 looking after, on account of hardiness, size and productiveness. 



One of the most interesting and instructive collections shown at 

 the fair was by Otto Wasserzicher, Bay Lake, Crow Wing county, 

 placed with the Aitkin county exhibit. It shows, first, the pos- 

 sibilities of our seedlings with Siberian crosses, and, second, the 

 probability of developing an apple producing region much farther 

 north than heretofore anticipated. Unfortunately, they were not 

 placed in the competitive exhibits and were not generally observed 

 as they ought to have been. Four of the seedlings were of a size 

 and appearance to make them valuable for market and of a quality 

 superior to inany varieties that now find a place in our markets, 

 viz: Red Cloud, Bay Lake Sweet, Blush seedling and Prolific seed- 

 ing. (F^or description see report on "Nomenclature and Catalogue.") 

 Some seedlings originated by the venerable pioneer of seedlings, 

 Peter M. Gideon, and grown at the same place, should have more 

 notice than heretofore given them. 



At the Wisconsin State Fair there was a remarkable line collection 

 of Oldenberg seedlings, seven varieties, produced by Joseph Zettel, 

 of Sturgeon Bay, Wis. So fine and valuable a collection from that 

 one variety has never before been produced by one man. The pros- 

 pect for raising an abundance of the finest apples here in the cold 

 North is growing brighter, and seedlings of the Russians and 

 crosses with our best and hardiest American varieties are destined 

 in the very near future to furnish us the best list of apples known 

 to the world. 



A HYBRID SAND CIIERKY, 



In the September last number of this magazine, page H41, allusion 

 is made to fruit of a hybrid sand cherry received from H. Knudson, 

 Springfield, Minn. I have since had it under investigation and have 

 examined the root, wood, leaves and buds and am fully convinced 

 that it is a true hybrid between the native sand cherry of the North 

 and the family of plums generally known as the Chickasaw. The 

 history of its origin is as follows: In the spring of 1S91, Mr. Knud. 

 son artifically pollenized the blossom of a sand cherry bush which 

 I had procured from near Bismarck, N. I)., and sent to him. using 

 pollen from both the Danish morello cherry and the Miner plum^ 

 with the hope of getting a cross with one or the other of these fruits. 

 The fruit, leaf and wood of this offspring go to show that it was the 

 pollen of the Miner plum that was potent, and the roots, buds and 

 season of ripening of the fruit show very plainly that the mother 

 parent wa>( unmistakably the sand cherry. The seed was planted 



