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added to the number this season, two trees of Malinda, two of Patten's 

 Greening, two of Iowa Beauty, two of Longfleld, donated to us by C. G. 

 Patten of Iowa. Not any fire blight has shown on the trees this season 

 except upon Antonovlca, Ostrekoff, 4 M, Gipsy Girl and Varzulek, and 

 on those not to a damaging extent, although in our older orchard con- 

 siderable blight appeared on a number of varieties. A few seedlings of 

 American parentage were quite badly affected with mildew and leaf 

 scab, which struck them about the first week in June, and we supposed 

 was caused by unfavorable weather conditions, viz: excessive wet and 

 warm cloudy weather. None of the trees have fruited this season except 

 the Lieby, or Hibernal, and the Ostrekoff, 4 M, although a considerable 

 number of the varieties carried some bloom. Not any of the new Rus- 

 sian varieties, or seedlings that can be trace! direct to them, showed any 

 of the scab, mildew or leaf blight above alluded to, either in the exper- 

 imental or our older bearing orchard, although in the latter the Tran- 

 scendent and nearly all other crabs, and the naas,Walbridge, Fameuseand 

 most of the other older American varieties were quite severely injured, so 

 that the fruit produced was small, poor and of but little account; and 

 many of the trees were so badly affected that they dropped much of their 

 foliage in June, and made but little growth until towards fall. We 

 have six trees of the Peerless; they all look very promising, have large 

 healthy foliage and have made a vigorous growth. 



In addition to the apples we have a small orchard of native plums on 

 their own roots, chiefly Desota, Rolling Stone, Cheney, 6 Pifer's Peach, of 

 bearing age, and the Ocheeda, Knudson Peach and several others not yet 

 fruited. The plums bloomed very heavily last spring but the crop of fruit 

 was a total failure, as it was generally throughout the Northwest. The 

 foliage upon most of the trees appears to be affected much in the same 

 way as the apples, and the trees failed to make their usual vigorous 

 growth, and later In the season were much infested. with aphis. We at- 

 tribute the failure of the fruit crop to the prevalence of cold cloudy 

 weather during the blooming season, and the almost entire absence of in- 

 sects that at that time work on the bloom and affect pollenization, and 

 the continued prevalence of weather that was favorable for the propaga.- 

 tion of mildew and other fungus. 



Of Russian pears we have planted six received from the central Iowa 

 experiment station, six from the Minnesota station and one seedling. 

 They have all made a vigorous wood growth, and none of them have 

 shown any fire blight, but the foliage was somewhat spotted. We re- 

 ceived from Prof. Green last spring two trees of Russian cherry, six of 

 dwarf Juneberry and one of quince, the latter failing to grow, others 

 looking well; also a few plants of raspberries and strawberries. Of older 

 varieties, the Japanese wineberry is too tender for this climate and the 

 fruit has no value for commercial purposes. We do not esteem the 

 Michel's Early strawberry very highly for a market fruit, but it seems to 

 answer a good purpose as a pollenizer. Parker Earle did not meet our ex- 

 pectation; one trouble appeared to be setting more fruit than could be 

 brought to perfection. We shall give it further trial. The Gladstone 

 raspberry continued to produce fruit most of the season, and late in Oc- 

 tober the plants were fairly well laden, but the fruit is under size, of a dull 

 unpopular color and very poor quality, and not worthy of cultivation. 



