204 ANNUAL REPOET. 



of Carver county. It is a good cherry for our climate, as the tree is 

 hardy, a great bearer, and the fruit in favorable seasons is 

 large and of excellent quality. Its color is dark red — very dark 

 when ripe ; form oblate; stem long; flesh, tender, sweet, sub-acid, 

 refreshing ; nearly a free stone. The tree grows better dwarf 

 than high standard;* best soil for it is a clay with mixture of sand. 

 If grafted, it must be on sweet cherry stocks ; is a failure on the 

 sour. 



A GOOD NATIVE PLUM. 



The plum I sent is a native, large, dark in color, and when fulh^ 

 ripe, juicy and very sweet: skin thin; worthy of cultivation by every 

 one who has a little garden. 



The time we sent our fruits to Philadelphia for the American 

 Pomological Society, was eight or ten days too early, on account 

 of the lateness of the season, to show many of them to advantage 

 in size, color and flavor. 



RUSSIAN APPLES. 



I have planted oat from time to time in the last ten years the 

 following varieties of the Washington Catalogue :f 



Nos. 183, 190, 202, 204, 214, 220, 236, 260, 262, 265, 295, 304, 330, 

 337, 343, 354, 367, 369, 370, 372, 382, 385, 387, 407, 430, 439, 447, 

 451, 458, 475, 544, 551, 569, 585, 595, 962, 965, 971, 979, 984, 985, 

 I have root grafted trees of these, some of the older ones have 

 borne fruit; both tree and fruit very good, but mostly summer 

 apples. What the most of them will be I cannot tell, as they are 

 now too young. I grafted many at first in the tops of old crab 

 trees, and they have generally proved failures, as there is no con- 

 geniality between the cells of these different races of trees, and 

 the sap is obstructed in its passage. I have done with top gratt- 

 ing. In all I think not much of these Russian kinds. The most 

 bear summer and early fall apples. Some are very small and sour, 

 and of such poor ones we have more than enough already. Besides 

 many of them are poor growers. The best use we can make of 



*NoTE BY Secret AKY, The dwarf must be a marvel of beauty then; for 

 the standard one at Mr. Krause's place is the handsomest cherry tree I have 

 seen in Minnesota. 



fNoTE BY SECRETATtY. Names omitted here and numbers only given, in 

 order to economise space, as the full catalogue is to be printed to make a record 

 of numbers and name, in the Secretary's Portfolio. 



