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die. This trial, which has now continued for eleven years, seems 

 to show that Patten's Greening is most congenial on crap-apple 

 stock, and that Hibernal comes next. Wealthy might have done 

 something had it not been for the juniper trees that served as 

 the winter host for the gymnosporangium. The trees all 

 received garden cultivation, but the result does not show the 

 Pyrus baccata stock is better than the root-grafted trees with the 

 common piece-root stock. In the case of the Oldenburg tree the 

 stock seems to have blighted, although there was very little 

 blight in the orchard except on one tree from Ames, marked 

 Snd. 1. 



No. 327 Ames is evidently a seedling of the Hibernal. It is 

 equally hardy, bears well, and produces a large, sour, juicy apple, 

 better in quality than the Hibernal, and not so subject to scab. 



No. Snd. 1, Ames, comes in a week or two later than the 

 Oldenburg, bears a beautiful looking apple, one-fourth larger 

 than the Oldenburg and of much better quality than the Okabena. 

 The trees show a little blight. 



Since Anisim has come into bearing with us, it has become 

 a favorite eating apple. It is small, but in quality it compares 

 favorably with a Washington Jonathan. In a cool cellar it will 

 keep until January. 



Opinions differ as to whether our wild high bush cranberry 

 is different from Viburnum opulus of Europe and Asia. The 

 American form of the shrub was called Viburnum americanum 

 by Miller as long ago as 1768. It seems to be absent from the 

 southwestern part of the state, but it was collected by Taylor at 

 Glenwood about thirty years ago. I have seen it growing in 

 the woods on the "Leaf Mountains" in Otter Tail county, where 

 it is a beautiful shrub. It is worthy of cultivation anywhere. In 

 the old volumes of "Garden and Forest" reports were made about 

 a form of this shrub raised from seed obtained from the moun- 

 tains about Pekin. We presume it was this form that was sent 

 out by Prof. Green some years ago as Viburnum pekinensis. As 

 growing at this station Viburnum pekinensis seems to be a 

 larger and more luxuriant bush than Viburnum opulus. It has 

 larger and longer leaves. When touched with the frosts of 

 autumn its leaves turn to a coppery red. The large cymes of 

 bright red fruit combine well with the leaves and make the plant 

 a striking object. 



Caragana pygmae is a native of Siberia and Thibet. Coming 

 from a dry, cold climate it is well adapted to our Northwestern 

 prairies. It belongs to the section of the genus having but four 

 leaflets. It is a low spreading bush well adapted to foundation 

 planting. It is readily propagated by root sprouts or seeds. 



Caragana frutex was formerly called Caragana frutescens. 

 It is a slender, upright shrub growing to about half the height 

 of Caragana arborescens. It also has leaves with four approxi- 

 mate leaflets. It makes an attractive screen growing to the 

 height of about six feet. It is native from Southern Russia to 

 China and is hardy at Montevideo. 



