248 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



List of varieties of apples sliown at the Freeborn county fair, 1892: 



Wealthy. Long Arcad. 



Duchess. Blue Anis. 



Utters. Summer Lowland. 



Haas. Repka Malenka and 15 seedling and 



Talman Sweet. unknown varieties. 



Walbridge. Varieties of crabs: 



MaUnda. Maiden Blush. 



Plumb Cider. Minnesota. 



Whitney. Hyslop. 



Charlamoff. • Sweet Crab. 



Anis. Malikoff. 



Antonovka. Palmer Sweet. 



Lieby. Orange. 



Czar's Thorn. Early Red. 



Ostrekoff 4 M. Briar's Sweet. 



McMahon. Martha. 



Elgin Beauty. Beacher's Sweet. 



Cross. Virginia. 



Patten's Greening. Sylvan Sweet. 



Longfleld. Soulard. 



Hibernal. 



REPORT OF VICE-PRESIDENT, THIRD CONGRESSIONAL 



DISTRICT. 



L. E. DAY. FARMINGTON. 



Mr. President, secretary and members of the Minnesota Horticultural Society: 

 — The past season has been a peculiar one. First, the spring was cold 

 and wet; on this account grapes, currants and strawberries were injured; 

 and later the advent of the apple scab and the great numbers of insects 

 on apple and other foliage. Y^, in this district we have been quite suc- 

 cessful in the raising of different varieties of fruit. 



Of standard apples there was a good crop, principally Duchess, although 

 Wealthy, Haas and other varieties, where alive, were loaded with fruit. 

 Apples did not keep as well as usual. Hybrids and crabs bore heavily > 

 yet they seemed to be affected by the scab more than the standards. The 

 worst affected on my grounds were the Power's Red, Transcendent and 

 Minnesota. Maiden's Blush, Meader's Winter, Montreal Wax, Beacher's 

 Sweet, Orange, Briar's Sweet, Quaker Beauty and Greenwood all gave 

 good crops. 



Plums. Although the trees were full of bloom in the spring, fruit wa& 

 a failure. 



Grapes, currants, raspberries and blackberries bore a large crop of nice 

 fruit. I never raised as nice blackberries before. They were the Snyder, 

 Stone's Hardy and Taylor's Prolific. 



The blight has been very bad the past season; few trees escaped its 

 ravages. Even Briar's Sweet and Maiden Blush were touched by it, and 

 also other trees that heretofore were quite free from it have been affected. 



I think that the interest in fruit raising in this part of the state is in- 

 creasing. Many are planting the newer varieties of apples, also Russian 

 and some of the older sort. 



