218 ANNUAL REPORT 



I will, with great pleasure, send you a paper about our fruit 

 varieties. 



I have read all that was written about this subject by Profes- 

 sors Budd and Gibb that appeared in the transactions of the 

 American Horticultural Society and in the report of your Society. 

 I will try to give a sketch of our climate belts and the varieties 

 that grow successfully in ea,oh of them, with the intention to 

 give to your members the possibility to make an appropriate 

 choice of varieties to be tried in their localities. You shall 

 receive, in due time, a package of cions of hardy varieties, 

 grown in a dry climate where — 18° Fah. is not infrequent. 



Mr. Baer, of Krementsburg, has promised me to send a box 

 with cions of varieties that I begged him to select, to Mr. W. 

 H. Eagan, secretary of the American Horticultural Society, at 

 Greencastle, and I have prayed Mr. Eagan to have the kindness 

 to mail you the package that is destined for you, after reception 

 of the full collection, that I have divided in three parts: one, 

 Crimean varieties, for the South; the second, middle and hardy 

 varieties for Wisconsin, and ironclads for your region. 



I have seen here, under the 62° north latitude, apple trees 

 in good condition, but I came too late to see the fruit upon the 

 trees to pass judgment upon the quality of the apples. One that 

 I tasted was sour; they nevertheless affirm here to have varieties 

 that a more delicate palate can taste without making grimaces. 

 If the assertions of the kozells of this place be true, here is the 

 place to recruit ironclads. You may receive an idea about the 

 climate if I shall mention the fact that the lake of Onega is not 

 free from ice before the end of May. 



Wishing you to receive the cions in healthy and good state, 

 after their long voyage, I remain, dear sir, with great respect, 



Yours, 



G. DOPPELMAIR. 



FEOM COLOEADO. 



Boulder, Col., Jan. 17, 1887. 



S. D. Rillman, Secretary, etc., 



Dear Sir: Yours of late date at hand, also program; thanks 

 for same. I send you to-day by express a few of our reports, 

 also photograph of the fruit exhibit, with list of apples (fifty- 

 eight varieties) shown at our December meeting, which was a 

 very successful one. The interest in horticultural work in 



