50 ANNUAL REPORT. 



features as our Northwestern country embraces, Iowa, Wisconsin 

 and Minnesota, Western Kansas, Dakota, and the country immedi- 

 ately west, on our high, dry plains. They |found there what you 

 will find described in their reports, and it is unnecessary for me to 

 repeat it. They brought back with them as the results of their 

 investigations a large number of the most valuable plants, cions, cut- 

 tings from the most promising fruit trees and shrubs, ornamental and 

 useful, that were to be found. Prof. Budd took his collection to 

 the grounds of the Agricultural College at Ames, Iowa, where they 

 have had careful propagation during the past two years. They 

 arranged for other trees to be forwarded and have received two con- 

 signments, one each year, and have been very successful thus far 

 with them. I placed myself in communication with him to get a 

 list of these trees, etc., for our own State. He promised to furnish 

 me with a supply of everything that would be of value to Minne- 

 sota, as soon as we were ready to receive them and they were tested 

 there. I was with Prof. Budd for several weeks at New Orleans 

 and I made arrangements with him then. This spring I sent down 

 and secured from him grafts and buds of everything that he had 

 and he sent me a complete collection of all of his fruits, shrubs and 

 ornamental trees and plants. I have those all set out, and nearly 

 all of them are in fine condition, and in the course'of another year 

 we shall be able to make a report to you of their success in the 

 climate of Minnesota. To-morrow I will furnish a list of what we 

 have for the information of the Society In consideration of the 

 labors of Prof. Budd that he has been engaged in, of so much value 

 to the country, I most heartily and cheerfully second the adoption 

 of the resolutions. 



Mr. Fuller. Mr. Chairman, I most cordially favor the resolu- 

 tions. I met Prof. Budd last winter and had heard of him before 

 that. He is a man of good common sense, and it seems to me he is 

 engaged in a work that he is going to carry through successfully. 

 I think very much of him and of his work. I received a year ago 

 considerable many of his trees and this spring he sent me another 

 lot, and the best that he has that are adapted to our climate. Many 

 of those received last year failed this spring; those he said were of 

 the Russian varieties. A good many killed to the ground. One 

 pear I received a year ago came out nicel}". 



Mr. Busse. I would like to make a remark on the work that has 

 been done by Prof . Porter, Mr. Oliver Gibbs, also Mr. Gould, of Ex- 



