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sadly away, muttering, ^' Ten or twenty years longer to wait — he 

 wants no money !" My last view of the prince was, drunken 

 and stripped of his last farthing, among a crowd of overjoyed 

 tree peddlers. F. K. Phcenix. 



FKOM IOWA. 



The following letters from Prof. Budd of the Iowa Agricul- 

 tural College at Ames, were then read: 



Ames, Iowa, Dec. 1, 1886. 

 S. B. mUman, Secretary, etc., 



My Dear Sir: Your program at hand. I much regret that 

 I have not been able to meet with you and talk over our mutual 

 successes and drawbacks. But year after year your annual 

 meeting and ours come on the same days. Our time is fixed by 

 law. Is yours? If not will you tiy and arrange for an earlier 

 or later date next year ? Yours, 



J. L. Budd. 



Ames, Iowa, Jan. 4, 1887. 



My Dear Sir: Your favor at hand. I am also anxious to at- 

 tend our meeting at Charles City. 



This Eussian fruit question has several aspects. In the north 

 half of Iowa the old list dropped down to the Duchess, Tetofsky, 

 and Wealthy. I believed six years ago, and am stronger in the 

 belief now, that East Europe had many varieties of really good 

 apples for all seasons, and many sorts of pears, cherries, and 

 plums, which would give perfect satisfaction in the north half of 

 our state, and some of them in your state and the north half of 

 Dakota. Acting on this belief, we have imported cions, grown 

 trees, and sent them out for trial as wisely as we knew how. We 

 did not expect them all to succeed, but out of them we did expect 

 to secure a few treasures. We keep a careful ledger account 

 with each variety we have sent out, and some of our friends who 

 scold at the meanest of the varieties in quality, such as the Hiber- 

 nal, Lieby, and Silken Leaf (No. 327 of Dep't. list), wall be sur- 

 prised if they spend a day looking over the reports from our 

 many sub-stations in regard to the perfection of tree and quality 

 of fruit of very many of the new-comers from East Russia 

 which have not yet fruited in your state that I know of. As 



