226 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
WRIGHT COUNTY. 
Andrew Oarlia, Town of Franklin, section 8, has 800 bearing grape 
vines, heavily loaded in 1891. Concord, Worden, Brighton, Lady and 
Champion are among the varieties. Also has six Duchess apple trees 
bearing in 1891, ten years old. 
Mr. Robah, three-fourth miles west of Montrose, has twenty-five ever- 
greens fifteen years old. Four rods east he has six Duchess sixteen years 
old, that bear every year. In 1891 he had 26 bushels. Condition, fair 
South of the evergreens he has one row of seven Transcendents 18 years 
old; perfect condition, no blight; bore heavily in 1891... Mr. Robah says, 
“They bear every year.” Also has two Hyslops standing with evergreens 
and they look fine. Three years ago heset a young orchard, one hun- 
dred Whitneys,and fifty Hyslops, some 100 feet south of evergreens and old 
orchard. They are all alive and have made a remarkable growth. Quite a 
number of Whitneys had fruit this last season; also one or two Hyslops. 
They have a fine, perfect trunk of about five feet, with compact head and 
show that Mr. Robah is no amateur in the business. In line of plums the 
Weaver and Desota do the best with him. He has a fine lot of small 
fruits consisting of Concord, Worden, Brighton and Delaware grapes, 
Long Bunch Holland currants, and Houghton gooseberries he thinks good 
enough for his use. Altogether he has the finest young stock that I 
have seen in Minnesota. This shows what a man may have who has the 
energy and perseverance of Mr. Robah. Inaddition to this he has a farm 
of 160 acres to look after. 
S. Ferrell, seven miles southeast of Montrose, has a seedling 18 years 
old. It has borne several crops; also has three large trees set 26 years ago. 
One measures 61 inches in circumference and is 30 feet in height. He 
calls them Siberian, but I think them Simons’ Crab. Mr. Ferrell says he 
set the trees three feet deep, the roots resting in subsoil, and filled in level 
with surface soil. Set about fifty treesat the same time. They were do- 
ing well but a wind storm broke them down three years ago. 
Mrs. G. W. Moore, near Buffalo, has a fine young orchard of twenty-four 
trees set four years ago, all doing well; hada number of grape vines that 
fruited last year for the first time; also has a fine lot of raspberries, all 
doing well. 
RENVILLE COUNTY. 
Hon. D. S. Hall, 6 miles northwest of Stewart, has a fine young orchard 
of apples and crab trees. 
Ferdinand Wolf, two miles east of Hira Island, nas some 25 trees set 
fourteen years; a few Duchess that have done quite well; Hyslops and 
Transcendents in fair condition, but have been troubled with some 
blight. They have not produced much fruit. Location, level ground 
south of a cottonwood grove. Mr. Wolf thinks he made a mistake in 
setting his orchard and will set another lot north of the grove as an ex- 
periment. Mr. Wolf has the finest line of mulberries I have ever seen. 
He raised them from seed sent him from Washington. 'They seem per- 
fectly hardy and produce abundance of fine large berries each year. 
They are quite different from the trees that have been sold for $1.00 each 
in the vicinity of Glencoe. I made arrangements with him for a few 
young trees and will report more fully on them at some future meeting 
