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EXCELSIOR EXPERIMENT STATION. 
H. M. LYMAN, SUPT. 
EXCELSIOR, MINN., Dec. 30, ’91. 
Samuel B. Green, Esq., St. Anthony Park, Minn.: 
DEAR Sir: As toa report, I cannot make a very full one at this time. 
As regards the stock received from you last spring, it made a fair 
growth. Some of the varieties showed some blight; No. 164 very badly. 
Regarding my seedlings, I have several hundred which appear to be 
perfectly hardy; most of them are seedlings from hybrid stock. It seems 
to me that we cannot have an apple that will stand right through a long 
series of years and not show signs of decay in this part of Minnesota, un- 
less it has some of the hardy Siberian stock in it, and then they come to 
bearing so much sooner than the common apple. I have about forty kinds 
in bearing, mostly small, generally from about the size of Transcendent up 
tosize of Wealthy; only one as large as the latter,andit nas beenin bearing 
only two years; is a long keeper, an excellent variety and seemingly very 
hardy, though of course it will take several years to determine its hardi- 
ness. Most of my seedlings have been in bearing 10 to 18 years; they 
have nearly all produced a crop of apples every year. One of them has 
borne more than 50 bushels in the last six years. Most of my Russian 
varieties, that were put out 15 years ago, are dead. Two still remain. One 
called Pineapple has fruited for the last 10 years. It is a large white 
appie; season, last of August. 
Respectfully, 
H. M LYMAN. 
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