STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. aii 
season with increased reputation. The Wealthy of all ages here has grown 
vigorously from the terminal buds. As a general thing it has shown no externa! 
signs of injury, and has blossomed and matured its fruit in abundance. We 
find it just coming into bearing in almost every school district. The oldest trees 
we have of this variety are about fourteen years from the graft, and they are al! 
sound. There is some complaint of the bight in the Wealthy, but I have not 
found it in a single instance except where it was contitguous to Transcendent or 
Siberian crabs, and there evidently due to contagion. Several years ago, the 
date Dr. Jewell, founder of what is now known as the Jewell Nursery, of Lake 
‘City, came to the conclusion that the blight was communicated from the Tran- 
scendents and-Siberians. He caused them to be removed from his grounds, root 
and branch, and forbid the premises thereafter. Since then the Nursery with 
over 6000 orchard trees and its large growth of young stock has been substan- 
tially free from blight—at least with nothing of it beyond easy control. 
The Duchess has borne a fair crop of fruit—not as heavy as last year, but 
enough to show that it still holds its place on the iron-clad list; while the Tetof- 
ski has gone back on itself. It has made but little growth. and has looked sick- 
dy all over. I have seen no trees of it bearing well this year, except some stem- 
budded ones on the place of Robert Smithson, of Goodhue county. I notice trom 
the Iowa reports that the Tetofski does best there on low lands or where top- 
workel. Tracing down the apple list, as arranged in our transactions, we find 
the Haas in orchards looking very sick. It had just recovered from the effects 
of the winter of 1875, and was beginning to bear well and look like a paying 
tree, when last winter caught it again in its overgown, unripened new wood, 
and now it is ‘‘down, quite down” again. What growth it has made has been 
in sprouts low down in the tops, and there has been but little fruit on it. I am 
afraid we must bid the Haas ‘‘good-night,’’ unless for top-working on the Tran- 
scendent. .Of what use is it to cling to a tree that sickens like this in every 
hard winter? jPrice’s Sweet is another sort that looks badly as an orchard tree. 
It appears that we have no reliable hardy sweet apples on the standard list. 
However, the Beecher Sweet, Hybrid, is beautiful, hardy, prolific and good, and 
for that we who have a sweet tooth, may weil give thanks. Saxton does not 
amount to much. The old St. Lawrence trees look well. Mr. G. A. Cook, the 
veteran of Cook’s Valley in this county, has one twenty years old or more, that 
bore him over 800 perfect apples in 1879. 
A few Plum Ciders of the old plantings are to be seen. One standing on the 
farm of Baker Harrison near Lake City, without any shelter, and by the road 
side, furnished its owner with three barrels of handsome fruit this season, after 
supplying the tramps and harvesters till the middle of September. Utter’s Red 
is in fairly good condition, and bearing medium crops. This is the handsomest 
apple we have except the Wealthy, and quality the very best. We find the old Fa- 
meuse entirely convalescent from 1873, and carrying a large crop of apples wher- 
ever seen, and looking unharmed by last winter. This sort seems to grow hardy 
with age. Tallman Sweet is a little off. White Astrachanis bearing some, and 
looking as well as most trees of its class. The Wallbridge is thrifty in young 
stock, fair in the oldest orchard trees and very sound. and productive in grafts on 
the crab. The other varieties of standard trees on our list, I have not had an 
opportunity of seeing; though a good report is heard concerning those originated 
by Mr. I. N. Rollins of Elgin, m this county, which will no doubt be reported on 
by other members of the fruit committee. 
