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fruited one Eussian variety; we received the scions from which 

 we got a start from a friend who was very much carried away with 

 the tree and its fruit. We went to see the fruit and tree and were 

 very much pleased with both. He informed me he had been send- 

 ing to Washington for scions for several years and root grafting, 

 and this was the only variety that would stand on his ground, 

 which was not good for fruit. His tree when I visited it was well 

 loaded with large Hat striped apples of an excellent quality for 

 cooking, and will keep about as long as the Wealthy. We have been 

 propagating and growing these trees six years and have sent them 

 out in other localities to be tested. So far as we have heard they 

 are a success. From experiments we have made, we are satisfied 

 it is useless to plant the seed of hybrids such as Whitney, Beech's 

 Sweet, Powers Crab, Early Strawberry and Wealthy. We are 

 now perfectly satisfied the Wealthy is a hybrid, probably grown 

 from a cherry crab seed, fertilized by Jonathan or Fameuse, both of 

 which it much resembles in quality. We say this and have the 

 best evidence to sustain the assertion that the cherry crab seed, 

 that has been fertilized by any good pure apple, will give much 

 better results than any apple or crab seed that can be grown. 

 Time will sustain me in this assertion. 



EXPERIMENT STATION AT MOORHEAD. 



By R. M. Probiifield, Superintendent. 



I have made no reports since 1887, (see page 315, Vol 15.) for 

 the reason that I had not enough of value to report to claim any 

 of your valuable time or space in the Annual fteport, nor do the 

 results of my experiments since give this report much value. The 

 springs and summer seasons in this locality for the years 1887, 

 1888 and 1889 have been unusually unfavorable to the growth of 

 new made plantations on account of drouths, dry, and scorching 

 high winds and untimely late frosts, besides millions of the 

 measuring worms, devouring the foliage of orchards as well as 

 forest trees in early summer of 1887, leaving all trees almost like 

 in midwinter. In consequence, all my Transcendents, planted in 

 1873, from which I had about five very heavy crops, are all gone; 

 they died en masse and I cut them all off in the fall of 1888, not 

 one left to tell the tale. That a large share of the failures 

 of Russians and other trees, received from A. W. Sias, A. G. 

 Tuttle and Prof. J. L. Budd is due to the same cause I do not 

 doubt, and in consequence it would not be fair to condemn all the 

 varieties that failed, as being not hardy enough for this section of 

 country. The trees left, are most of them not so tall as when 

 planted, being a new growth from lower part of stem, and I now 

 let them grow in bush form. The examination on which this re- 

 port is based, dates from September 24th, 1889. 



