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ISfew Ulm plum crossed with Bohemian No. 6. 



Rosa blanda " Various remontants. 



Rosa blanda " Various bourbons. 



Rosa blanda " La France. 



Mad. George's Bruant " Mad. Gabriel Luizet. 



Gen'l Jacqueminot " Alfred Colomb. 



Ulrich Brunner " Alfred Colomb. 



Moore's Early " Vitis riparia. 



Iris versicolor " Iris Germanica. 



Seedling Grapes. Several years ago we planted quite a number of 

 seeds of selected grapes, in each case selecting the largest and plumpest 

 seeds. Two of them bloomed last year and proved staminate. Three 

 seedlings fruited this year, but, alas, we had evidently carried our selec- 

 tion in the wrong direction. Our grapes showed wonderful improvement 

 in size of — seeds. Two or three generations more of such selection ought 

 to develop grapes with edible seeds. 



EXCELSIOR STATION. 



H. M. LYMAN, SUPT. 



My report from this section will be brief. The apple trees I received 

 last spring from the central station have done finely; those received one 

 year ago last spring have not done as well. The Antinovka, Dartt's Hybrid, 

 and No. 164 are dead from blight, also a variety labeled Kretshor, consist- 

 ing of three trees, have all blighted to the ground. The blight about here 

 has been worse than for several years past, though on part of my orchard 

 even the Hyslop and Transcendent showed no signs of it. Last spring I 

 planted a number of trees, seedlings and Duchess and Wealthy; I had dis- 

 carded the latter from my list, but it is such a valuable apple, I think it 

 will pay to continue planting even if does kill every ten or a dozen years; 

 I also set out about three hundred root grafts from hardy seedlings. 



I know but little regarding the quality of the Peerless, but I know it is 

 as near blight proof as any other variety we have. 



I have several seedlings which bore for the first time this year. The 

 fruit was of medium size and fair quality and from hardy stock; but time 

 alone will tell whether they will stand our climate. Apples about here 

 for the past season were a medium crop, but the fruit was smaller sized 

 than usual. 



LA CRESCENT STATION. 



J. S. HARRIS, SUPT. 



Samuel B. Green, Professor of Horticulture of Minnesota State Farm School 

 and Experiment Station. 

 Sir:— I am directed by the secretary of the Minnesota State Horticul- 

 tural Society to report the progress of the experimental work being done 

 on the sub-station located at La Crescent, Minn. 



THE ORCHARD. 



The orchard devoted to the testing of varieties now contains about two 

 hundred trees of apple in about 75 varieties, besides some numbered seed- 

 lings. About one-half of the varieties are of the newer Russians. We 



