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and he selected under the direction of Prof. Budd, cions of everything 

 that he had brought from Russia, and that he had received since his 

 return. I have over 5,000 of these root-grafts now planted, and I find 

 from an examination made yesterday that about seventy-five per cent, 

 of them are going to live. The work should have been done much 

 earlier in the season. I have over 3,000 of these root-grafts growing, 

 and in the course of another year I shall be able to distribute from 

 this nursery to our horticulturists throughout the State enough for 

 testing purposes; I propose to furnish duplicates to your different ex- 

 perimental stations whenever they arc ready to receive them. In 

 addition to this line of work I have not only all the fruits, embracing 

 his apples, pears, plums and cherries, but I have a large list also of 

 ornamental shrubbery and trees that Prof. Budd found growing the 

 most luxuriantly, or successfully, in the same climate as that of our 

 northwest, where they have the same average temperature, the same 

 degree of humidity, where there is every reason to suppose we should 

 have the same degree of success; if they can grow these ornamental 

 trees in Russia I don't know why we should not succeed equally as 

 well in Minnesota. 



In addition to this work I have planted an orchard of four acres of 

 our most apj^roved Minnesota apples for fruiting purposes. I have 

 four varieties of pears that Prof. Budd found to *be perfectly hardy 

 in Russia which are hard}- at Ames, Iowa, and which he recommends 

 for Minnesota and Dakota. We will give them a test and another 

 year we will be able to make a report on them. Of Russian plums I 

 have only one variety; I had four specimens, but have only one of them 

 living. Of the native plums of Minnesota we have a collection of the 

 best varieties, etc. I have of the grapes, twenty -two varieties; they 

 have all come through the winter in fine condition, and will be ready 

 for fruiting next season. 



In the line of small fruits, I have a large number of varieties of straw- 

 berries, raspberries, currants and gooseberries. They are all well 

 established and making a good growth. In the line of vegetables I 

 have growing this year about every thing that can be grown in the 

 State of Minnesota, and in condition may be ranked as good, bad and 

 indifferent. Some of these varieties of vegetables are doing remarkably 

 "well; some of them owing to defective seed, are looking very poorly. 

 I can report one crop that is vigorous wherever it has had a chance, 

 and that is weeds and grass. [Laughter] 



Now, in our work in horticulture I wish to place the Experimental 



