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a very fine lawn tree with dark, glossy, healthy foliage resembling the 

 pear. Have received plants from Montana where I have seen it in fruit 

 fairly prolific and of good size. 



RASPBERRY. 



We are having good success with the Turner, Caroline, Hansell, Cuth- 

 bert and Philadelphia Red, without any winter protection whatever. 

 Preference is given in the order named. Black cap varieties have not been 

 a success, except a native black cap, which shows great improvement in 

 size and productiveness under garden culture. 



BLACKBERRY. 



Have but one variety, the Snyder, which has fruited two seasons. Has 

 received no winter protection. 



CURRANTS. 



We have several old varieties which furnish an abundance of fruit. 

 Seedlings of the native black currant show marked improvement in size 

 and quality and productiveness the first generation from the wild. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



We have quite a number of seedlings of the wild black cherry, choke 

 cherry, bird cherry, sand cherry, buffalo berry, etc., etc. Some of them 

 promise improvement over their wild congeners. 



REMARKS. 

 President Elliott: In Mr. Heideman's report I notice he 

 says there is a marked improvement in the native black currant 

 from the seedling, and if this is so it seems to me that we had 

 better continue in that directian. If we could get the black 

 currant to grow as prolific as our red currant it would be valu- 

 able. 



OWATONNA EXPERIMENTAL TREE STATION. 

 By Supt. E. H. S. Dartt. 



To the Minnesota State Horticultural Society: 



Gentlemen: All is quiet on the Potomac, is what we used to hear 

 when our armies were maneuvering and anxiously waiting to meet our 

 nation's insidious foe. And we may say all is quiet on the Owatonna 

 tree station while we are working and wailing for the onslaught of our 

 insidious foe the elements. We court a moderate degree of early disaster 

 that our works may be tested and strengthened, so as to avert future 

 calamities. 



Much substantial work has been done during the last season, the details 

 of which will be omitted except so far as may seem necessary to enable 

 you to judge of its character. 



It has been my belief that good results would be obtained much sooner 

 by gathering in the first fruits of other men's labor than by depending 

 entirely upon my own. I have also anticipated grand results from plant- 

 ing the seeds of our most valuable acclimated varieties. 



These two lines will be pushed in the future as in the past. In regard 



