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quarts." He says Stone's Hardy holds its own fully up, if not 

 ahead of all the rest. The Thornless bore well without covering. 



GRAPES. 



Crop shortened up a little by the drought, but fair. Wordeu 

 stands at the head, Moore's Early second, Delaware third, Con- 

 cord fourth, Janes ville fifth; Eogers' seedlings next. 



Currant crop was good; Long Branch Holland among the best. 

 Fay's Prolific fails to ''pan out" as well as we anticipated from 

 the high commendations of its introducers; it no doubt succeeds 

 better further east. The Flowering Raspberry — or "Grapevine 

 Raspberry," as the tree peddler has it — must be adapted to a 

 dry climate, as it produced more fruit this season than ever be- 

 fore. The Russian mulberry crop, owing, perhaps, to the in- 

 clemency of the weather, was extremely light in our part of the 

 State; in fact, I have not seen one of those large, luscious berries 

 the past season. 



I append the following report from M. W. Cook; 



"Rochester, Minn., Jan. 14, 1887. 

 "J.. W. SiaSj President Olmsted Horticultural Society, 



"Dear Sir; In compliance with your request to report 

 amount and varieties of fruits grown by me this season I cheer- 

 fully comply with that request, although the varieties grown 

 will fall short of previous years owing to the fact of selling a ten- 

 acre lot containing the most of my raspberries and blackberries 

 and a part of my strawberries, leaving me with only a newly set 

 plantation of the above. I hope in good time to be able to make 

 a favorable report of both yield and value received. Of straw- 

 berries my bearing beds are planted with the following varie- 

 ties; Crescent, Downer, Ironclad, Pipers, Capt. Jack, James 

 Vick, Glendale, Bidwell, Parry, Sucker State, Mt. Vernon, 

 Cumberland Triumph, Wilson, Windsor Chief. All being 

 planted in rows three feet apart; fully one-half of all my bear- 

 ing beds are Crescents, which I consider the most prolific of any 

 when well fertilized; and in order to secure that object I usually 

 plant three to four rows of Crescent, then two to three rows of 

 some perfect flowering kinds. From a field of 5? acres of 

 above varieties, planted in that way I picked this season thir- 

 ty-five thousand boxes which were mostly shipped to various 

 points in Dakata. The first shipments were billed 10 cts. : after 



