382 ANNUAL REPORT. 



ceivedwas the cause of delay. The two kinds of api^les, "Wright's 

 Sweet and Wright's Bellefloiir, greAV finely, being top- worked on 

 fine stocks; but I am soriy to report them badly injured by the 

 winter, being very nearly, if not entirely, dead. 

 Forestville, March 31, 1885. 



CORRESPONDEIs^CE. 



F. G. Dewey, of Esmond, Dak., writes under date of Feb. 10, 

 1885: "We have no suggestions at present to offer that will be 

 of interest;but will state that there is a small striped bug work- 

 ing on the cottonwoods in Moody and Brookings counties, and 

 they have killed the best groves ten to twenty feet high, but did 

 not seem to work upon other timber on tree claims." 



W. F. Eastman, secretary of the Dakota Horticultural Society, 

 writing from Huron, under date of April 1, 1885, in reference to 

 an exchange of reports, etc., says: "There are many things com- 

 mon in the horticulture of Minnesota and Dakota, although our 

 climatic conditions, especially in respect to moisture and hot, 

 drying winds, are much different." 



GEEMAN AGRICULTUEAL AND HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY OF RAMSEY COUNTY. 



Following are the names of officers of Ramsey County German 

 Agricultural and Horticultural Society: 

 President— F. W. MuUer. 

 Vice President — Herman Christoph. 

 Secretary — Adam Bohland. 

 Financial Secretary — Ernest Venzke. 

 Treasurer — E. F. Lemke. 

 Executive Committee — Carl Bund and Jolin Lorenz. 



