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year old tree, then in full bloom, and apparently uninjured. He 

 stated that this variety was grown from a Tetofsky seed, probably 

 crossed with the Hyslop crab, the fruit of which it resembles some- 

 what, both in size and general appearance. This same .variety stands 

 well in the nursery, the trees appearing thrifty and showing very 

 slight injury. We noticed here a large Duchess tree which had been 

 utterly ruined by the protection afforded from a building which stood 

 on the north side of the tree; from which he concludes that any pro- 

 tection from the north is worse than none at all. 



In the orchard we fouud Yearl's Winter, badly affected. He re- 

 marked that it had heretofore given considerable promise as a hardy 

 winter seedling, bat he now regards it as worthless, and should never 

 again recommend it to favorable consideration. 



In his orchard of Duchess and Tetofsky, of seven or eight acres, 

 most of the trees show marks of injury. The larger portion of tlie 

 Duchess trees have been set some fourteen years, proving heretofore 

 hardy and productive, while now many of them are killed outright 

 and others are so much injured that they canuot fully recover. His 

 mode of culture has been to plow the ground between the rows spring 

 and summer, manuring or mulching heavily near the body of the trees 

 as a protection from the cold. He regards the Duchess and Tetofsky 

 as the only well known standard varieties worth cultivating in this 

 climate; although a few of the Russian varieties promise equally well, 

 others are more or less injured. 



With Mr. Dartt quite a number of the crab varieties are apparently 

 hardy and will produce fair crops of fruit this season. The best of 

 these are Early Strawberry, Transcendent, Orange, Beachs Sweet 

 and Hutchinson's Sweet. Whittiey No. 20 is a good deal injured, or 

 semi hardy. As the Transcendent blighted in former years, he had, 

 be said, on the recommendatiun of the State Horticultural Society, 

 planted the Haas quite freely, but the experiment had proven abortive. 

 The Greenwood crab seems to be a promising variety, fruit of good 

 flavor, size of the Transcendant, the tree a constant bearer and very 

 hardy. The Peach apple is also a hardy tree but a shy bearer. He 

 favors the crab family generally, but says many varieties are good for 

 nothing. The Maiden Blush, for instance, is an early bearer, a good 

 apple, but the tree dies early; the same with Minnesota. Hutchin- 

 son's Sweet, a very fair sweet apple, is a poor bearer. 



Mr. Dartt also has a young orchard one mile distant from the city, 

 containing some three thousand trees in which he had set five hundred 



