148 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
EXPERIMENT STATION FOR GRAPE VINES, EXCELSIOR, 
MINNESOTA. 
CHAS. W. SAMPSON, SUPERINTENDENT. 
Vines received in good order, except one Eaton, which was a 
poor vine. I set them out about the 10th of May and watered them, it 
being very dry. They all made a very fair growth of vine, some of them 
growing five or six feet. I set them on elevate@ ground, sloping 
to the south. The soil a sandy loam with clay subsoil. I covered them 
this fall with earth, putting straw manure around the roots. I am very 
much pleased with the growth they made this season. The following 
kinds have made a good growth: Dracut Amber, Moyer, Eaton, Mills, 
Woodruff Red, Eldorado, Green Mountain, Telegraph and Rockwood. 
T hope to make you an excellent report next year. 
REPORT OF EXPERIMENT STATION, MINNESOTA CITY, FOR 
THE YEAR ENDING JANUARY 31, 1891. 
° 0. M. LORD, SUPERINTENDENT. 
To S. B. Green, Horticulturist State University, St. Anthony Park, Minn,: 
Stock received spring of 1891. j 
Cherry trees—5 Frauend offer Weischel, 3 Orel (24), 3 Riga (109), 3 Strauss, 
3 Giotte Dumond, 3 Orel (23), 2 Brus Braume, 3 Orel (27), 2 Kings Amarell, 
3 Shadno Amarell, 3 Besarabran, 3 Riga (108), 3 Lutovka, 3 Double Natte, 
3 Sklanka, 3 Orel (25). 
Currants—2 Black Russian. 
Plums—2 Voronesh Yellow, 2 White Nicholas, 2 Richland, 3 Hungarian. 
Grapes. 2 Kansas. 
Raspberries. 1 Wineberry. 
Growing experimentally from last year’s setting— 
Two pear trees (Bessemianca) 
Strawberries. Princess, Warfield, Bubach. : 
Plums. Wyant, Knudson’s Peach, Homestead City, Bean, Heide- 
man’s New Ulm, also some scions of Yosemite, Kelsey, Botan, Sheuse and 
Satsuma. There are several varieties of native plums upon the ground 
that may be considered long past the experimental stage; also grapes, 
such as Concord, Delaware, Iona, Moore’s Early, Wordon and Agawam. 
Blackberries. Ancient Briton, Snyder, Stone’s Hardy, Taylor and Early 
Harvest. 
Raspberries. Philadelphia, Turner, Cuthbert, Shaffer,Gregg and Taylor. 
Strawberries. Crescent, Jessie, Downer’s Prolific, Capt Jack and Man- 
chester. 
All these fruits have been grown here fora series of years and have 
proved to be adapted to the soil and climate. 
After a careful and painstaking trial of four years, I have discarded 
the dewberries, as not adapted to my soil, though occasionally wild ones 
grow in this vicinity and produce abundantly. 
Apples. No apple trees have been set within the last three years. The 
leaf or twig blight has materially damaged what are standing, which in~ 
