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of it in the orchard set exclusively to the new Russians, and that was 

 confined chiefly to varieties of the Alexander type The following 

 varieties were well loaded with fruit, and impressed me as being the 

 mobt valuable: Hibernal, Glass Green, Juicy White, Red Wine, Gar- 

 den Apple, Blue and Yellow Anis, Charlotenthaler, Early Cham- 

 pagne, Yellow Transparent, Trees of Lord's Apple, and Repka, Beau- 

 tiful Arcad, Raspberry, Summer Lowland, and some others, were fine 

 trees, but were bearing poorly. 



The Hibernal is perhaps the best tree of all, a free and regular 

 bearer of large, fair fruit The season is late autumn and early win- 

 ter use, cooking, and for that purpose it is excellent The Red Wine 

 is a splendid tree, fruit medium, very beautiful, but quite acid; season 

 rather earlier than Duchess. Glass Green resemble the Duchess in 

 tree, and fruit not quite as acid. The Garden Apple is sweet, or nearly 

 so, and apparently a very hardy tree; season early autumn. The trees 

 of Early Champagne were bearing to their fullest capacity. Mr. Tuttle 

 informs me they are annual bearers. The trees appear hardy on his 

 grounds If it should prove adapted to Minnesota it will become our 

 most popular summer fruit. In size it is below medium, quality very 

 fair, is as productive as any of the crabs, and it ripens up gradual!}', 

 so that it is in season from July to September. 



In an orchard near by we saw trees of the Antonovka in full bear- 

 ing, and apparently sound. These trees are among the best growers 

 of the Russians. The fruit was larger than we expected to see it at 

 this season of the year. Prof. Budd speaks of it as the king apple of 

 Central Russia, and a good keeper. We trust that it will be widely 

 tested in this State. The varieties of the Anis family are doubtless 

 hardy, and the fruit of the Yellow Anis, the only variety we have 

 sampled (and which, by the way, was not a yellow apple), is of prime 

 quality. Season same as the Wealthy. 



We here saw the Lucretia dewberry in bearing, and we were much 

 pleased with it. 



IN NOBLES COUNTY. 



On the 27th and 28th of July A. W. Sias and myself made a visit 

 to the orchard and gardens of H. J. Ludlow, at Worthington, and we 

 were agreeably surprised to find there the most fruitful orchard we 

 had seen in the State this season. 



We found this thrifty young orchard looking fully as well as when 

 we visited it last year, and fruiting to its fullest capacity, and never 

 in any locality have we seen the Tetofsky doing so well. The bear- 

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