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In addition to the varieties described above we have found numbers of 

 seedlings in about every county visited. In Houston county there are 

 some eight or ten more showing some considerable merit. In Fillmore, 

 besides the Kruyels, some half dozen; in Freeborn three; in Faribault 

 seven or eight; in Martin about three; in Winona three or four; in Wa- 

 basha four; Eice a dozen or more; Hennepin six or eight; McLeodtwo. 

 Besides these we have heard of one in Nobles county, several in Blue 

 Earth county, one in Renville county, one in Kandiyohi county, and a few 

 in Goodhue county. Some of these are likely to prove as good or better 

 than those already described. We have noticed that seedlings known to 

 be of the Oldenburg very generally show large healthy foliage and com- 

 parative freedom from blight, and that a considerable proportion of them 

 produce fruit of average size and fine appearance; that the season varies 

 from August to December, and that the flavor of some of them is finer 

 than the Oldenburg, those supposed to be crossed with the Haas being the 

 poorest. These facts are encouraging; and may we not have reasonable 

 grounds to expect that seedlings from these and from the longest keeping, 

 most hardy varieties of the newer Russians will at no distant day give us 

 hardy varieties adapted to our climate that will meet our every want? 

 Among older varieties mentioned in former reports the Peerless, Patten's 

 Greening, Okobena, some of the Krugels, and the Catherine are appar- 

 ently doing well. 



