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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Grwpes. — Minnesota No. 1, Minnesota No. 2, Minnesota 

 No. 3, and Minnesota No. 7, were not very good, and I think 

 should be discarded, but Minnesota No. 3, Minnesota No. 4, Min- 

 nesota No. 6 and Minnesota No. 8 bore a very good crop and 

 appear to be worthy of further trial. 



Of plums from the state farm, but little can be said except 

 that they seem all of them to be not very productive. Nine- 



Corner of a Minnesota plum orchard. 



teen trees, nine varieties, set the spring of 1913, have 

 not as yet borne or, rather, perfected a single specimen of 

 fruit. These trees have been growing four seasons on well 

 manured and well cultivated land in a well sheltered location. 



The plum trees from the state farm we set one year later, 

 twenty-one trees, nine varieties, only perfected one specimen. 

 It was found on Minnesota No. 20. 



Two varieties of hybrid plums were sent me by C. G. Patten 

 spring of 1914. They were European and Americana crosses. 

 They were labelled "Purple," and "Purple D" and bore freely the 

 past season. Trees appear very hardy, fruit only of medium 

 size, very firm fleshed or, rather, hard, even after falling from 



