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my notice which I will report as an addition to the list presented at the 

 last annual meeting and published on pages 125-28 of report for 1890. 



1. Wood's plum: size, large; form, round oblique; diameter, If, (said to 

 be larger in favorable seasons); color, deep brownish red; flesh, yellow: 

 flavor, peachy, good; season, Aug. 20th to 30th; a clingstone; originated 

 from seed by Joseph Wood, Windom, Cottonwood County, Minn. 



2. Seedling: medium large; form, round oval; color, pale red; flesh, yel- 

 low, rather soft; flavor, good; skin, thick; pit rather large. The fruit 

 may have been affected by drouth. It is a plum of very fine appearance, 

 originated from seed by Mr. Lilly, of New Ulm, Minn. 



3. Cotterell plum: large; oval; deep red, blotched purple and covered 

 with light bluish bloom; flesh, medium meaty; flavor, sweet and rich; 

 nearly freestone; origin, Dover, Olmsted Co., Minn; tree a strong grower. 



4. Harrisons Peach: large; round oval; ground color, yellow covered 

 with light and dark red; flesh, deep orange, juicy, good; tree good but too 

 shy a bearer; originated at Minneapolis, Minn. 



5. Ocheeda plum: large round; yellow blotched with deep red on sun 

 side; flesh, orange yellow, meaty, sweet, apricot flavor; pit, small, oval, 

 thick, nearly freestone; tree, vigorous and stocky; leaf, large; origin, 

 Nobles Co., Minn. 



6. Woolf plum: size, large; form, round; color, deep red finely dotted 

 with gray specks, covered with white bloom; flesh, firm, greenish yellow; 

 flavor, good; freestone. This variety is fruiting with O. M. Lord, Andrew 

 Peterson and Dewain Cook, and is promising. It originated in eastern 

 Iowa. 



7. Quaker plum: size, large; form, round; color, brownish red, thickly 

 covered with gray dots and over all a bluish bloom; flesh, deep orange, 

 juicy, good; tree hardy, upright grower with Mr. Sias; origin, eastern 

 Iowa. 



8. F. A. Neil, Hamilton, Minn., showed at the S. M. fair a fine looking 

 plum: size, large; form, round; color, yellow with splashes of carmine or 

 pink; pulp, greenish yellow, meaty, good flavor. He reports the tree of a 

 spreading habit, hardy and productive; diameter of fruit, li to If inches. 



9. Leonard plums from Washington, Fillmore Co.: two seedlings from 

 wild native do not differ very materially; size, medium; form, round oval; 

 color, purplish red, blue bloom; flesh, deep orange; flavor, good; said to be 

 immensely productive. 



We have now got track of so many good varieties of native plums that 

 we would call the attention of this society to the importance of having at 

 least the best of them catalogued for future reference and recommend 

 that a committee be appointed with that end in view, and instructed to 

 report at the annual meeting of 1892. All of which is respectfully sub- 

 mitted. 



REPORT OF THE SEEDLING FRUIT COMMISSION. 



BY J. S. HARRIS, LA CRESCENT. 



Mr. President and Members of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society: 



I do fully realize the arduous work that is required of this commission 

 and the importance of having the work done carefully and well, and I 



