146 ANNUAL REPORT 



EEPOET ON SEEDLINGS. 



By the Jewell Nursery Co., Lake City. 



The report from this station is meagre from the fact that but 

 twelve cions were ever officially received; these were top- 

 worked, and unfortunately the stocks were struck with fire- 

 blight and the cions were thus destroyed. 



Eecognizing the fact, however, that the Minnesota nurseryman 

 could not pin his faith to old varieties, more or less experiment- 

 ing has been done on our own account, and, we are proud to 

 state, with the most happy results. From prudential reasons, ap- 

 parent to all, we can not state full particulars as to origin of all 

 our varieties, but will report in a general way. 



Dartt's seedling, originated by E. H. S. Dartt, Owatonna, a 

 seedling of the Tetofsky, as a tree is a beautiful, upright and 

 rapid grower. The wood has proved to be remarkably hardy, 

 during this, the most severe season that has ever been experi- 

 enced in Minnesota. The fruit is nearly the size of the Whitney 

 No. 20, of a deep red color and promises to keep well until 

 February; quite tart; will unquestionably prove a valuable 

 acquisition to the present list of hardy hybrids. 



DUCHESS SEEDLING. 



This is from a tree now growing in Southwestern Minnesota, 

 and has been in bearing for six years; is an annual bearer, and 

 from the best information obtainable, the seed was from the 

 Duchess, fertilized by Wealthy. The tree stands in a very ex- 

 posed situation, growing in tough sod, on a dry, gravelly knoll, 

 in a locality that ordinarily has but little snow. In an adjoin- 

 ing orchard are Transcendent, Hyslop, Duchess, Wealthy, Whit- 

 ney, red and yellow Siberians, and, without exception, the 

 wood of this tree shows less injury from winter than any of the 

 ironclads named. The quality of the fruit is A No. 1, and its 

 natural method of fruiting is to place an apple wherever room can 

 be found to give it support; when thinned out properly the fruit is 

 of the size of the Wealthy and a better keeper; the marking is 

 peculiar, as highly colored as the Duchess or Wealthy, and each 

 apple invariably shows a band of deep crimson, running half 

 around the apple from blossom to stem end, varying from a six- 



