144 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
406, Saccharine: is a hardy tree and don’t blight any; had fruit two seasons 
of medium size. The quality is good but there is no saccharine init. It 
is sour as the Duchess, so the number and name is a mistake—it is from 
the Department. 
These fruits that I now have mentioned I have fruited, so I know what 
they are and know how long they keep. 
The Grandmother, Red Ripka and 3m Lead apple: these are nine years 
old, but have not fruited them yet as they are late bearers, but the trees 
are hardy and don’t blight any. Of small trees 1 could mention about 
fifty varieties more, but it is no use, because I don’t know how they will 
come out. 
Of the five varieties of seedlings I gotfromC. G. Patten, Charles City, 
Iowa, those he called the Pattens Greening are the best. It is hardy and 
don’t blight any at all; the fruit is tolerable large with good fiavor and 
keeps until Christmas. 
Those I call the Wolfs Seedling has fruit of a middling size and the 
quality is very good, and it keeps up to April, but I am sorry to say that 
the tree is not hardy for winter, as it don’t blight any. In my judgment 
it must be a cross from Rawles Janet and Fameuse; the tree and leaves are 
Rawles Janet but the flavor is Fameuse. Anyhow, the tree is hardier than 
the Rawles Janet for winter. My own seedling has not fruited any yet but 
I hope it will next summer. 
Last spring we had a good deal of trouble with the leaf-worms (or cater- 
pillars) in our neighborhood. I took several bushels of them. I tried a 
good many ways to keep them from the trees but the best of all was to tie 
wool around the trees; they couldn’t crawl over that because they were too 
short-legged. Next spring it will be the same because the wood is full of 
eggs in the orchard. I have picked lots of eggs this fall. Another enemy 
that we are troubled with here is the rabbits; they did me a great deal of 
damage last winter. I wish our society would ask the legislature next 
session to give bounty on the rabbits the same as on wolves. 
Of the Peerless apple trees I have to say that they looked hardy. I top- 
grafted acouple of hundred of the Peerless on three year old Lieby stock 
and they grew splendidly; they didn’t mind the winter and don’t blight 
any. I think that they will be the trees for Minnesota in the future. © 
I have a few varieties of plum trees. In the spring they showed a good 
deal of fruit on them, but the caterpillars took it all. So they did with 
all the leaves on the raspberries, but they blossomed anyway and there 
came new leaves again, so we had as good crop as ever of raspberries. 
Of strawberries we had a very good crop last season. 
In Prof. S. B. Green’s report in ‘‘F. S. and Home” of Sept. 15, ’91, is a lit- 
tle mistake. He says I commenced selling apple trees in 1872. I think he 
misunderstood me when I said I planted the first Russian apple tree 18 
years ago. I commenced planting apple grafts in 1856. That spring I 
planted a thousand—bought from Neills nursery, Burlington, Lowa, the 
same nursery that I worked in before, and in 1857, 1 bought another 
thousand grafts, altogether about 50 or 60 varieties, and of all these there 
were only the Fameuse, Rawles Janetand Pumpkin SweetI could grow 
big enough for bearing, and they bore a good crop for a few years, but 
then they died. Yours respectfully, 
ANDREW PETERSON. 
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