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The time varies so much according to the season, that observa- 

 tion for a series of years would be necessary, to be of any practic- 

 al value. The following is the record at this station for 1889. On 

 strawberries, first blossoms appeared on the Wilson May 8th, on 

 Manchester, Jessie, Crescent, Downers, and others on May 12th. 

 On blackberries and dewberries, Britain, Stones Hardy and 

 Snyder and Lucretia and Windom blossoms were about alike on 

 May 20th. Apples. — A few blossoms appeared on May 1st, on 

 the Duchess, Fameuse, Wealthy aDd Utters Bed; also on Tran- 

 scendent, Hyslop, Strawberry and other crabs. They were all in 

 full blossoms between the 1st and 7th of May. Of native plums. 

 The Cheney was in blossom on April 25th, and other varieties 

 ranged from three days to one week later. 



EXPERIMENT STATION AT CAKVEE 



By Chas. Luedloff Superintendent. 



The Russian apples that I experiment with, have done well the 

 past season. Some of them bloomed and some set fruit, but Mr. 

 Jack Frost killed all the blossoms and little apples consequently 

 they have all made a good growth without showing any signs 

 of blight. In a short time I will have them tested. The apple 

 crop was poor this year and only a few crabs bore fruit. The plum 

 crop was good and brought a good price in market. I have some of 

 the best native varieties and some Russian and tame plums. The 

 two last named kinds do not stand our hard winters so I give 

 them protection until they will come into bloom to get pollen for 

 cross fertilization with my best native plums. 



The grape vines were healthy, the crop was fine and all ripened, 

 Of the new sorts I will mention the "El Dorado" as a very fine 

 white sweet grape. 



Strawberries. The crop was very poor on account of the dry 

 weather, I picked only once over. 



Blackberries. When in bloom they looked very promising and 

 looked like a snow bank, they were so white but a hard frost killed 

 the blossoms. 



EXPERIMENT STATION AT CHOWAN. 



By M. Pearce, Superintendent. 



SEEDLING FRUIT TREES. 



After the winter of 1872 and '73, when the fruit trees were about 

 all killed in Minnesota, we made up our minds that if we ever 

 got fruit trees to stand in Minnesota they must be grown from the 

 seed of hardy varieties of apples that grew in the state. With 



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