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have reached maturity have been of small size and low quality. The foL 

 lowing varieties were set in orchard in 1892: Double Natte, 6 Rui, 23 Orel, 

 Late Morello, Wagner, Lutovka, Koper, George Glass, Strauss Wiechel, 

 Koper, Grirotte du Nord, 24 Orel, King's Amarelle, Brussaler Braun, 

 Fraundofer Wiechel, 109 Riga, Skalanlca, Junat Amarelle, Girotte de 

 Osthiem, Bessarabian, Bender, 27 Orel. 



Trees and Shrubs. — The following were set in 1892: Prunus Maacki, 

 Strawberry Tree, Dwarf Juneberry (Dartt), Bearberry, Persian Lilac, 

 White Tartarian H., Viburnum Opulus, Alnus Incana, Lonicera Cutea, 

 Ribes Alpinum, Caragana Redowsky, Spiraea Hypericofolia, Josikea Li- 

 lac, Lonicera Media, Lonicera Grandiflora, Russian Snowball, Acer Gin- 

 nala, Caragana Pygmae, Spiraea Douglassi, Rosa Rugosa, 88 Riga, Phil- 

 adelphus Grandiflora, Philadelphus Speciosa, 144 Vor, Berberis Amuren- 

 sis. More than 95 per cent of the trees and shrubs, both fruit and orna- 

 mental, set in the past two seasons, have lived and made satisfactory 

 growth. 



EXPERIMENT STATION, MINNESOTA CITY. 



O. M. LORD. 



The specialties named for this station are cherries and native plums. 

 A part of the grounds are occupied with other fruits, such as apples, 

 strawberries, raspberries, black and red, blackberries and grapes, the 

 growth, liabits and adaptability of which are carefully observed from 

 year to year, though not considered wholly experimental. A list of the 

 varieties grown here may be desirable for reference for those who would 

 plant under similar climatic conditions. The apples consist of Wealthy, 

 Walbridge, Fameuse, Shockley, Golden Russet, Peach, a few Russians 

 and a few Wealthy seedlings, and several varieties of crab apples. 



The plums number 50 varieties, covering nearly all that have attracted 

 special notice under cultivation. The bearing trees of cherries are the 

 German Ostheim. There are 27 varieties of Russian cherries that have 

 made a fine growth but have not yet fruited. The strawberries are, 

 Crescent, Capt. Jack, Manchester, Bubach, Warfleld, Princess, Downers, 

 and Jessie. Red raspberries. Turner, Cuthbert. Black raspberries, 

 Gregg, Tyler, Nemaha and Palmer, also a fine growth of the Shaeffer. Of 

 blackberries the Ancient Briton, Snyder, Taylor and Early Harvest. Of 

 grapes the Concord, Delaware, Agawam, Moore's Early, Worden, lona, 

 Massasoit and Lindley. Several varieties of all the fruits named above 

 except of blackberries, have either died out or have been discarded as 

 worthless or as not adapted to soil, climate or conditions. For the pur- 

 poses of the society a record of the failures is as necessary as that of suc- 

 cess.- Wealthy and Duchess apples were plenty. There was no fruit of 

 plums nor of cherries in this vicinity the past year. The excessive wet 

 and cold weather at blossoming time prevented the formation of fruit- 

 Strawberries, blackberries and grapes bore abundantly. 



The habits and blossoms of the cherry and plum were more particularly 

 observed last spring than those of other fruits. The cherry trees blossomed 

 profusely and set considerable fruit, which turned yellow and dropped to 

 the ground when about the size of field peas. 



