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Grape vines—20 White Ann Arbor, 20 Oneida, 5 Moore’s Diamond, 10 
Agamemnon, 10 August Giant, 30 Concord, 5 Francis B. Hayes, 20 Jeffer- 
son, 10 Martha, 30 Moore’s Early, 10 Brighton, 10 Worden. 
Raspberry Plants—2,000 Crimson Beauties, 5,000 Cuthberts, 100 Gregg, 
100 Yellow, 2,300 Cuthbert, 100 Turner, 100 Eureka. 
Currants—200 Red Dutch, 100 Fays Prolific. 
Rhubarb—12 (kind unkown). 
REMARKS. 
Prof. S. B. Green: This station is at the St. Cloud Reforma- 
tory, and is carried on by convicts. It forms one of the best 
opportunities we have for pursuing work. The location is 
most admirable, and it is a place where we have never had 
much experiment work carried on. The land is high and roll- 
ing, and is a most admirable situation for orchards. I under- 
stand that they are going to put out three or four acres next 
spring. Although the work has largely been preparatory so 
far, I think it is one of the best places that we have to have 
the work cared for. While Mr. Myers’ report is not very 
long this year and is practically confined to what they have 
raised on the place, yet the work that he is doing is valuable, 
and the outlook is very promising. 
WINDOM EXPERIMENT STATION REPORT. 
BY DEWAIN COOK, SUPT. : 
APPLES, 
Of Russians, some seventy varieties are mostly doing finely; a few varie- 
ties are beginning to bear. They are free growers and do not kill back 
any, that is those that have been set only four or five years, or since the 
hard winters, so it is a difficult matter to teli what varieties will succeed 
and what will fail. 
Of other varieties of apples and crabs I have quite a long list. My 
Hyslops and Transcendents have blighted to death leaving only a 
few specimens; the Beechers Sweet killed with blight without produc- 
ing any fruit; the Minnesota appears very hardy, and no blight; the Early 
Strawberry is a strong growerand free from blight: the Virginia crab is 
very promising, is a rank grower, absolutely hardy and thus far free 
from blight; the Wealthy and Duchess are the popular apples here, the 
Wealthy blights a little in the twigs. 
Of the newer varieties, the Okabena, two trees set spring of ’89, are 
doing finely. It makes a strong, healthy growth, has fine foliage, and is 
one of the few varieties that ripens up its new growth perfectly. The 
Peerless, set spring ’91, grew vigorously from the start; it has a large, 
healthy leaf. So far Iam well pleased with it. 
