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The tree grows more of a bush form than a tree, and the fruit 

 ripens about first of August. If this variety proves hardy it 

 may be of some value in some locations for its fruit and also for 

 ornamental purposes. Another hybrid which fruited this year 

 is Compass cherry with Climax plum, one of Luther Burbank's 

 introductions. Fruit dark red color, with green flesh, medium 

 size and fair quality. This tree is an upright grower and with- 

 out thorns ; it is hardy and makes a fine tree. It was sent out as 

 premium last spring to some members. Other hybrids fruited 

 more or less but will require more time before I can report on 

 them. 



Among several thousand gooseberry and currant seedlings 

 fruiting this summer we have selected about 200 plants for 

 propagation in a small way for further trial. All bushes not 

 coming up to a certain standard have been discarded, dug up 

 and burned, to make room for other plantings later on. 



A block of about four acres were planted to approximately 

 6,000 apple seedling trees last spring. These were grown from 

 seed of N. W. Greening, Wealthy, Scott's Winter, Bethel and 

 other varieties — seed secured from D. C. Webster's orchard at 

 La Crescent, Minn., also from a quantity of seed from our own 

 plant breeding work. 



We had very little fruit from the Malinda seedlings, planted 

 some eight years ago. However, a few trees bore some very 

 promising fruit of good keeping quality, and among them is one 

 highly colored, of fair size and a good keeper, quality very good. 

 The interesting part of it is that the apple is pink clear to the 

 core. 



New fruit plants to members of the Horticultural Society 

 were sent from the Fruit Farm last spring, consisting of hybrid 

 plums, Minnesota No. 4 raspberry, No. 3 strawberry, No. 1017 

 everbearing strawberry. I have no record of how many plants 

 were sent, but they ran up into the thousands. We ran short of 

 plum trees and No. 4 raspberry, and No. 1 raspberry was substi- 

 tuted where members had more than one lot of the No. 4 rasp- 

 berry, and it was also substituted for plums in some cases. 



Some of the new strawberries were exhibited at the horti- 

 cultural summer meeting last June, also plums, grapes and some 

 seedling apples at the State Fair last September. 



The President: I know you will want to ask Supt. Haral- 

 son some questions about these interesting things that he is 

 working with. I was going to ask him if he has done anything 

 with the cherry. 



Mr. Haralson: I did quite a little last spring with both 

 the sour and the sweet cherry crossed with the Compass cherry, 



