246 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Currants were prolific with some. The Smith Bros., of Inver Grove, 
Dakota Co., marketed 175 bushels at St. Paul, at an average price of $2.00 
per bushel. They give their plantation good cultivation, and while 
others had their crop destroyed by the worm, they attended to biggi a by 
applying some remedy. I should judge they had an acre. 
Raspberries and strawberries produced very well, the latter especially 
being much better than two years previous. The Jessie and Bubach are 
being planted to some extent, though the Wilson and Crescent are the 
leading berries. 
Blackberries and dewberries are planted some. 
The planting of evergreens is receiving more attention every year 
among the farmers, as is also the planting of deciduous trees and shrubs. 
Judging from what 1 can see, I think the citizens of Washington and 
Dakota counties are on the right road to enjoy the luxuries of fruits and 
flowers, blessings given to us by an All-wise Being. Let us be steady 
workers in horticulture, for it helps to promote wealth and happiness. 
REPORT ON GENERAL FRUITS. 
J. C. KRAMER, LA CRESCENT. 
I hope you will not be discouraged by my short and feeble report. In 
regard to fruit, my report is as follows: The crop of apples was splendid 
on most high lands where the open air could strike them, but in the val-_ 
leys it was poor. On Caledonia Ridge there was a full crop of apples. 
The show of apples at the Caledonia fair was very fine. There was one 
plate of apples which was called a seedling, that attracted great actten- 
tion. They were a grayish colored apple of perfect form, some four or 
five inches in diameter. After inquiring of the young man in charge of 
the exhibit, I am unable to learn its origin, but understand that the tree 
is healthy and thrifty. I will report upon it further at some later time. 
I have the promise of a few scions from the tree. 
On my own place I have five seedling apple trees, crosses of the 
Transcendent with the Tolman Sweet, bearing for the first time this 
year a fruit beautiful in form and color, some of which is yet in my cellar. 
From the same planting of seeds I have also four trees bearing sweet apples, 
one the size of the Transcendent and the others about double the size, 
perfectly hardy and thrifty trees. 
Plums were plenty in market this year, some of excellent quality. All 
my wild plum trees bore well. The Emerson plum did not produce much 
fruit. When in blossom they were attacked by mildew and an insect that 
curled up the blossoms and leaves, so that the trees were naked of leaves 
for about two weeks. Will some one please tell me in the next report 
how to prevent this mildew and the ravages of these insects? 
A good many of the young seedling apple trees from the Excelsior ex- — 
periment station are doing finely, and others ought to be grafted, as these 
trees are very healthy to graft on. 
