\ 
MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. = = 47 
white color, with a beautiful red cheek, flesh tender, fine 
grained, with a peculiar pleasant flavor. December to January. 
3. Meader’s Winter—A handsome, strong growing produc- 
tive tree. Fruit size of the last ; excellent for eating. Season 
April and May. 
4, Hutchinson’s Sweet—Tree a good grower, with slender 
twigs; a moderate bearer. Fruit size of the last described ; 
superior quality, keeping until‘April or May. 
5. Quaker Beauty—A stronger grower than the Transcen- 
dent; a biennial bearer. Fruit large, handsome and of excel- 
lent quality. April to May. 
CLASS THIRD—HARDY. 
1. Gen. Grant—A vigorous, erect and symmetrical tree ; 
an annual and profuse bearer, fruiting in dense clusters. Fruit 
very large, dark red, nearly black when ripe, and in quality 
much like the Duchess. October and November. 
2. Hesper Blush—Tree among the handsomest, and a good 
bearer. Fruit a little smaller than the Gen. Grant; smooth, 
handsome, quality good. Season, November to January. 
3. Aiken’s Striped Winter—A fine tree, but the least hardy 
of the class; an annual and free bearer. Fruit good sized 
and valuable for either eating or cooking. Season, mid- 
winter. 
Class Four, except Green Winter, are too well known to 
need description. They are suitable for cooking and drying 
only." 
A few additional facts in regard to these Siberian varieties 
may not be without interest. The first class is slightly more 
hardy than the second, but both are regarded as sufficiently 
so to warrant general planting. The third class is less hardy 
than the two preceding, but will probably succeed in all but 
the most trying situations. 
None of them are as orchard trees like the Transcendent 
badly given to blighting, except Meader’s Winter and Gen. 
Grant. 
In fruitfulness the several varieties differ greatly, but in the 
aggregate fruit younger and more profusely than the common 
kinds of apples. 
For eating none are inferior to the Duchess, while several 
kinds are equal in this respect to any apple grown. 
As a harvest fruit the Early Strawberry is more valuable 
than the Tetofsky, the fruit being as good in quality, and the 
tree more vigorous and hardy, and adapted to all kinds of 
soils. 
~The Orange is unquestionably more valuable for general 
