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hardy. The varieties that withstood the past hard winter are the fol- 

 lowing: Hibernal, Ostrekoff's Glass, CharlemofF, Lieby, Red Checked. 

 All of these look as nice as ever before, and there is a great deal of 

 fruit on the trees. I have been in Minnesota over thirty years but I 

 never saw so much damage done to fruit trees as we have had from 

 the past winter. Early Richmond and Mountain Hess cherry trees, 

 ten years old, are entirely killed. 



Very Respectfully, 



Andrew Peterson. 



from prof. j. l. budd, ames, iowa. 



The following letter from Prof. Budd, of the Iowa Agricultural Col- 

 lege, was then read: 



Secy. Minn. State Horticultural Society. 



My Dear Sir: I am sorry that I cannot meet with you as I wish 

 to go to Washington with a view to getting aid from the Department 

 of Agriculture in our adapting fruits, etc., to our Valley. 



The past winter has wrought fearful havoc with our old list of fruits, 

 but the Wealthy, Duchess and all the true Russ a^jples came out clean 

 and white as did a few of the Russian pears, all of the plums from the 

 East plain and all of the cherries and shrubs from Central Russia. 

 For once theory and practice walk hand in hand. What [ wrote from 

 Europe two years ago has been verified by this last winter to a dot. 

 In other words the products of like soils and climates live with us. 



J. L. B. 



FROM A. G. TUTTLE, BARABOO, WIS. 



The following communication was read from A. G. Tuttle, of 

 'Baraboo, Wis. : 



Baraboo, Wis., June 22, 1885. 

 S. D. Hillman, Esq. 



Dear Sir: I received your letter with sheets of your report. I find 

 that what I said at your meeting is somewhat mixed up; 1 have made 

 some corrections and return them. 



Prof. Budd claims not to have been correctly reported in what I 

 said about my list of Russian apples. You will find in one of your re- 

 ports a letter from him to your secretary in which he says that the 

 Hussians that I have are not from interior Russia and not adapted 



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