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Pres. Underwood: What can you do with the fruit of the 

 sand cherry? 



Prof. Hansen : We had a large patch we grew from seed that 

 we experimented with, and we let some of them stand, and I 

 found quite a number far better than those from Colorado. 



Pres. Underwood: If j'^ou had twenty-five bushels of sand cherries 

 what would you do with them? 



Prof. Hansen: I would use them as a stock for the plum. 



Pres. Underwood: Well, I do not mean the seed, I mean the fruit; 

 what use could you make of the fruit? 



Prof. Hansen: That is what J mean. 



Pres. Underwood: Do you think the root of the sand cherry is 

 strong- enough for the plum tree? 



Prof. Hansen: I don't know about that. 



Mr. Harris: I think within twenty-five years something fine will 

 come from the sand cherry. I picked out one at Ames that was very 

 good to eat out of the hand, and we made some sauce out of it, and 

 it had not asiringency at all. 



Pres. Underwood: The reason I asked the question, we had about 

 twenty-five to fifty bushels of the fruit this summer, and we did not 

 know what to do with it. Some children came and asked me if they 

 could have some of the fruit, and I told them if they were careful 

 that the foreman did not see them, as children were not allowed in 

 the nurseries, they could have all the fruit they wanted. That was 

 enough, we got rid of every bit of the fruit. (Lavighter.) As for a 

 stock for plum trees, I have seen plum trees, even those that had a 

 very hardy root, I have noticed plum trees that have been killed 

 out in the roots, which were near the surface and all bunched up, 

 and it seemed to me they would be subject to drouth, and I would 

 be a little afraid to use the sand cherry as a stock for plums for fear 

 they might not have roots enough for them. 



Mr. F. W. Kimball: I have found the sand cherry with roots 

 six to eight feet long. I know of no bush with so inany roots as 

 the sand cherry. It is not an uncommon thing when pulling thetn 

 up to find roots six to eight feet long. 



Prof. S. B. Green: We have used the sand cherr}^ for plum stock for 

 about eight years They seein to do very well. I have seen some 

 plums budded on the sand cherry ten or twelve years ago; they 

 were budded quite a little ways above the ground, and the whole 

 thing would tip over easily. As to what to do with a large quan- 

 tity of sand cherries, I met a man at Brainerd who thought there 

 was no drink like sand cherry juice. (Laughter.) 



Mr. S. D. Richardson: A plum grafted on a sand cherry, I think, 

 has a better root than the ordinary plum. 



Prof. Hansen: I will say this sand cherry juice that was spoken 

 of is very nice; I think it would tnake a fair wine. We experi- 

 mented at Ames with the European plum, but they are not a suc- 

 cess on the sand cherry; some of them made pretty good trees, but 

 most of thetn did not seem to do so well as the native plum does 

 on the sand cherry. I have a good deal of confidence that it will 



