210 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



EXPEEIMENT STATIONS. 



REPORT OF CENTRAL STATION. 



PROF. S. B. GREEN, ST. ANTHONY PARK. 



It is a little too early to look for the best results from the reorganization 

 of our experiment stations. I think the work done and being done shows, 

 however, the wisdom of your action of two years ago, by which the pres- 

 ent superintendents of the experiment stations were selected. The work, 

 already accomplished here is all that could be expected in so short a time 

 Considerable material for experiment purposes was sent out to the dif- 

 ferent stations last spring, and I think all of them received the material 

 asked for by the superintendents as nearly as it was practicable to furnish 

 it. In bulletin No. 25 of this station, published in December last, was 

 included reports on small fruits from those sub-stations especially work- 

 ing on these lines. It is my intention to increase the representation of 

 the work of the sub-stations in the bulletins of the central station, as 

 their work increases in value and as opportunity may offer. Reports from 

 these stations are submitted herewith and they speak tor themselves of 

 the great value of the work they are all doing. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



The publications of this division for the time covered by this report are 

 as follows: Bulletin No. 24, issued in October, 1892, consists of 64 pages, 

 and is a report on the behavior of the ornamental and timber trees, shrubs 

 and herbaceous plants offered by the most progressive nurserymen that 

 have been tried in this state. This bulletin contains a table of hardiness 

 in which the different plants mentioned are, as far as possible, criticised 

 by reliable observers in various parts of the state. It is designed, especially, 

 as a guide to planters in this state, and furnishes a satisfactory answer 

 to the many requests this division has received for information of this 

 character. Bulletin No. 25, issued in December, 1892, consists of a report 

 on varieties of strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, dewberries and 

 grapes fruited at the station the past year; a report on a preliminary ex- 

 periment in shading strawberry plants to increase their fruitfulness; on 

 renewing old strawberry b^ds; on the details of a very successful experi- 

 ment in the spraying of grape vines to prevent downy mildew, and of re- 

 ports from our sub-stations on small fruit. 



APPLES. 



The experiment orchards at the station are in excellent condition and 

 produced a small amount of very excellent fruit the past season for the 

 first time, but they are not yet old enough to warrant me in drawing conclu- 

 sions from the results. The number of varieties on trial has been in- 

 creased by the addition of promising seedlings and Russian, Swedish and 



