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red variety, or rather purple, rather soft when ripe for market, but excel- 
lent to can. Very rarely a productive one propagates from the tips, but 
owing to dry seasons I have not been able to get plants. Plants are best 
secured from plants set the first year. A few years since I bought 100 
plants of the Windom dewberry. Perhaps I do not know how to grow 
them. They were planted out in rows 3 feet apart, I never have had any 
berries from them, and I hope some one will tell me what is the matter. 
I had the pleasure of looking over the experimental station at Owa- 
tonna the past year. I havea great deal of confidence in the work that is 
being done there. Some of the seedlings have showna remarkable growth» 
and if some of them do not show up well I shall be disappointed. 
In company with John P. Andrews of the Faribault nursery last fall, we 
visited the Peerless apple tree growing on the farm of J. G. Miller in the 
town of Richland. We gaveit a very careful examination. One of the 
lower limbs had been sawed off close to the tree. Another limb just above 
the one that had been cut off was so near dead it might as well be cut off, 
as it is kept alive by one-half inch of live bark. We are ready to endorse 
the committee’s report, that was given in the winter of 1889, that ‘“‘it is 
not a sound tree,” but we consider it a valuable tree, with the exceptions 
made, and I think it the best tree of large apples that has borne well so 
many years that I know of. If it willdoas well grafted on other roots, 
it may prove of considerable value to Minnesota. 
Mr. Miller has a large healthy crab tree that we both admired. He said 
it bore heavy crops of excelient fruit and never blighted. This tree was 
beautiful in form and perfectly sound. We did not see the fruit. 
DISCUSSION. 
Judge Moyer: I would like to ask if anybody has had suc- 
cess with the Windom dewberry or any other dewberry? 
Mr. J. A. Sampson: I will say that Mr. O. H. Modlin, of | 
Excelsior, has grown the dewberry. I have seen the berry 
on his premises, and it is a very nice fruit. They were put up 
on trellises and seemed to be quite abundant and of good qual- 
ity and size, but I cannot speak as to the profitableness of their 
culture. 
Mr. Harris: I would like to ask Mr. Kenney if he took any 
of the boxes off the trees this summer and examined the trees 
inside the boxes. ; 
Mr. Kenney: No, sir, I did not. I will state, however, that 
over a year ago when I took the banking away from some of 
the trees that there were no roots started out at all and that is 
what gave me the confidence to box the trees as I did. 
Mr. Harris: Now, if the earth being on that tree during the 
summer would not have a tendency to cause it to throw out 
roots, itis a grand thing. Itis an honest fact that the trees 
