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are the best. He has four or five winter sorts. Mr. Michenor 

 speaks hopefully of apple culture in Minnesota, and considers 

 his Duchess trees as valuable as so many cows. Mr. Michenor 

 has a wild grape vine that covers nine large Cottonwood trees on 

 one side of his garden, and furnishes five or six bushels of fruit 

 per year. They sell for one dollar per bushel on the vine. Mr. 

 Michenor has some winter seedling apples that may prove valu- 

 able. 



Mr, Parkinson of Fillmore county has seedlings from the 

 honey locust, now about twenty-five feet high, straight, hand- 

 some as a dollar and apparently perfectly hard}'; the most of 

 them were entirely thornless, and I brought away a seed pod 

 from one of them, that measured twelve inches in length. 



We inspected an apple tree on the farm of J. S. Ottman, some 

 fourteen miles northwest of Rochester that appears to be a cross 

 between the Hyslop crab and some larger apple. The tree re- 

 sembles the Hyslop; fruit same color and nearly as large again. 

 We kept it till about January 1st, aUd with proper care it can 

 be kept longer. 



SEEDLING STRAWBERRIES. 



We have a seedling of the Jessie, that germinated a year ago 

 last July, now among our house plants, with six berries on it, 

 nearly half grown. Another with a leaf four inches long, and 

 the same in breadth. If the best of foliage is any criterion for 

 judging fruit, then look out for something rich at our next sum- 

 mer meeting. 



EEPORT ON SEEDLING FRUITS. 

 By G. W. Fuller, Litchfield. 



I visited the Jewell Nursery at Lake City to learn what I could' 

 in regard to seedlings they are growing. Mr. Emery, one of the 

 proprietors, gave me every facility for seeing their trees. The 

 three year old Okabena seedlings are fine trees and with few ex- 

 ceptions appeared healthy. I said to Mr. Emery: "These trees 

 look just like the Wealthy." The answer was: " They are prob- 

 ably a cross between the Wealthy and Duchess." I did not see 

 the fruit, but a plate of the apple was shown me, which seemed 

 to me like the Wealthy. 



