280 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



GRAPES. 

 Our crop of grapes has been a fairly good one. The most productive 

 varieties with us the past season were Worden, Brighton, Lady, Moore's 

 Early, Janesville,Early Victor, Delaware, Agawam, Lindley, Herbert and 

 Barry. In our location the Concord has not ripened for three years, and I 

 therefore would not recommend it for general planting, but only for favor- 

 able locations. We have discarded Goethe and "Niagara as requiring too 

 long a season, though we expect to try them both, the coming year, on 

 weak stocks, to advance, if possible, their period of ripening. 



GRAFTING THE GRAPE. 



In some experiments carried on in this line the past season excellent 

 results were obtained in grafting before the sap had started at all, i. e., 

 in what is called the first period. Other vines were successfully grafted 

 after the plants were in flower, but the growth on these was not over 

 three feet, while on those grafted earlier the growth was generally over 

 ten feet. These results were obtained in grafting various Labrusca on 

 the Clinton. These matters I anticipate reporting on at more length in 

 a coming bulletin. 



CHERRIES. 



The cherries received from Prof. Budd in 1889, fifteen varieties, win- 

 tered well and made a very satisfactory growth the past season. They 

 are now heeled in and will be planted permanently the coming spring on 

 high, dry ground. 



The trouble in getting hardy stocks presents itself to all growers of 

 this fruit. The sand cherry I think will make a reasonably good stock 

 for this purpose. I have also imported from Riga this year four and a 

 half pounds of cherry pits, which I hope will furnish us with valuable 

 hardy stocks. 



SAND CHERRY. 



The many conflicting reports about this fruit I think can be reconciled 

 by believing that there is a great difference in the varieties. It is cer- 

 tain that this fruit was in great abundance near Brookings. S. Dak., the 

 past season and at other places; that it is a reliable crop in some of the 

 most trying localities in Dakota and is looked upon already as a commer- 

 cial commodity. I obtained some of these fruitful plants several years 

 ago from various localities and planted some on dry poor land and others 

 in rich garden soil. The past year a variety received from Prof. Budd 

 several years ago, blossomed full, but only fruited sparingly. 



STRAWBERRIES. 



Our crop of strawberries was a very late one and fruited sparingly. I 

 have little to add to the paper presented to you on this subject last year* 

 except to say that Park Beauty is a promising variety and deserves a 

 place on our fruit list as a most promising novelty, it is also highly 

 praised in many localities elsewhere. 



Lady Rusk is quite a failure on our grounds, having become badly dis- 

 eased; this is much the same report that is made of it elsewhere generally. 



Warfield No. 2 is a prolific variety and very promising, but we have 

 not sufficiently tested it to be ready for a final report. 



Last spring we planted all the novelties of the season, including Parker 

 Earle, Osceola, Bedawood, Crawford, Michael's Early. Cloud Seedling, etc. 

 These have all made a satisfactory growth. 



