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tained in 1823 no less than 5i,000 seedlings of merit ;" the superinten- 

 dent at Rochester would like to ape Andrew Knight (on a very small 

 scale, of course) and so obtain a cross between the McMahon White 

 and the Autumn Streaked, also cross the Red Cheeked, Red Anis, 

 Antonovka, White Pigeon and Russian Grreen with McMahon or some 

 better keeper. In other words to make a specialty of hand fertiliza- 

 tion. In this way let each superintendent choose a specialty for which 

 he is best adapted. If this plausible scheme of Mr. Lord's could be car- 

 ried out the whole Northwest would soon begin to see that our exper- 

 imental stations were made to perform a grand work. C. Gr. Patten 

 hit the nail square on the head when he remarked: " Gentlemen, we 

 need a Van Mons and an Andrew Knight in every state of the North- 

 west." 



The past extreme winter, and summer's drouth, admonish us of the 

 necessity of clinging to the Russians. This and many other genera- 

 tions shall pass away before they go out of date. At least our experi- 

 ments point to this conclusion. 



Our experience is that the Brandywine raspberry is about what we 

 want. It stands the summer's heat and winter's cold equal to the 

 Turner; yields better with us, and is more attractive on the market. 

 We think it has no peer as a keeper or shipper among red raspberries. 

 Schaffer's Collossal is very large, but inferior to the Brandywine as a 

 shipping berry. 



The Jessie strawberry has only been with us one season, but looks 

 very promising; but as-we are never satisfied short of perfection, we 

 propose to fruit a seedling from the Jessie as soon as possible. The 

 Manchester was one of the very best with us this year. Old Ironclad, 

 best of the early varieties. 



The Windom dewberry behaves better than the Lucretia. Shell- 

 bark hickory trees grown from seed raised on the grounds of J. S. 

 Harris in Houston county, now two years old, are likely to stand the 

 racket. 



EVERGREENS. 



The thirty varieties of evergreens on our experimental grounds, 

 prove to us most conclusively that Minnesota, any part, is the genial 

 clime and soil for evergreens. The Norway Maple and Sycamore have 

 proven too tender. The Rocky mountain conifers from D. S. Grimes 

 of Denver, Col., and from Robt. Douglas, of Waukegan, 111., are doing 

 finely. 



The Rockford plum from C. G. Patten, is fine. Fay's currant is a 



