448 ANNUAL REPORT 



Hyslop, Transcendent and Moringe Crabs. Then follow Duchess, 

 Tetofsky, Pringle, Gilman, Dean, Yellow Anis, Charlanioff and 

 Repka Malenka, with the terminal bud and an inch of wood 

 slightly discolored. Xext come Isham, Peach, Oharlottenthaler, 

 Yellow Transparent, Prolific Sweet, McMahon White, Scott's 

 Red and Iowa Russet, with a trifling more discoloring. Then 

 come Iowa Blush, "Wealthy, Alexander, Longfield, Child's and 

 Switzer, with yet more discoloring. Last come Borsdorf, Wolf 

 River, Walbridge, Fameuse, Plumb's Cider, St. Lawrence and 

 Fall Orange — all of which I think are no good here. 



I have also Clapp's Favorite, Flemish Beauty and Keifer Hybrid 

 pears growing in nurseiiy row, all of which are frozen to the line 

 where covered by snow last winter. One Keifer Hybrid pear, 

 three years old (fromChas. A. Green, Rochester, IST. Y.) that has 

 been drifted up with snow every winter, made a splendid growth 

 last summer and set fruit buds to every inch of wood. Last fall 

 I took two big barrels, with ends knocked out, and placed them 

 around it — one barrel on top of the other — filled in and covered 

 with sawdust. That tree has come out sound, and I expect to 

 have some pears from it next summer. 



The native plums received from Mr. Gideon made a very fine 

 growth and are entirely hardy. Moore's Arctic plums, from 

 Phoenix N^ursery, Delavan, Wis., seem to have stood the winter 

 fairly well. 



Strawberries and currants grow finely here. Raspberries and 

 blackberries must be covered every winter, then they fruit well 

 and pay well. 



Very little fruit is grown here, but the market, in season, is 

 well supplied with wild fruit. Besides some strawberries and 

 currants, a few Duchess apples, Hyslop and Transcendent crabs 

 are seen. But as the country becomes settled, the wild fruit 

 will go, the demand for cultivated will increase year by year 

 and by that time, I think, we will have solved the problem of 

 successful fruit growing in the far Northwest. 



Yours for further trial to grow fruit, 



S. Running. 



