148 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
raise all we need, and more too,if we only get the right kinds. I set 
out last spring 1,900 plum seedlings, which I raised from my own 
pits, and will top-graft a good number of them. If Ican procure 
scions, in a few years I intend to have more of the hardy plums. 
Fruit is sparingly planted in southwestern Minnesota. The reason 
for this is that farmers were cheated too much by those smooth- 
tongued agents. I, for my part, lost over seventy-five dollars and 
have not one tree of them left. This is wrong and nothing buta 
steal out of the poor farmers’ pocket. 
SEEDLINGS AND NEW FRUITS. 
"J. 8. HARRIS, LA CRESCENT. 
Owing to causes beyond my control, I am not able to report very 
much progress in the work assigned me during’the year 1894. Where 
not an entire failure, the apple crop was very generally light and 
the quality inferior. Very generally,seedlings that I had been follow- 
ing up during late years were not bearing so that I could secure 
typical samples of the fruit to aid me in further investigation, and 
I have learned of very few that fruited last year for the first time 
or that have not before been heard from. The number of really 
promising seedlings shown at the state and other fairs was not 
large. Samples sent by mail or express have been fewer than usual. 
On these accounts I have not felt justified in making any extended 
trips over the state that would cause expense to our society. 
At the state fair the Peerless and Okabena were shown by two or 
three parties, and they are now getting to be so widely distributed 
as not to require farther looking after by your committee. W.S 
Parker had on exhibition a variety that bore so great a resemblence 
to the Mollie, that originated with Mr. Gideon about the same time 
as the Wealthy and was by him discarded on account of blight and 
low quality, that I at first supposed it to be the same, and, as a mem- 
ber of the committee on nomenclature, placed that name upon the 
exhibit. Further investigation brings out the fact that it is really a 
good apple that will keep well into the winter, and Mr. Parker thinks 
the tree is more hardy than the Wealthy. Following is a brief de- 
scription: Size,5; form, round-conic, angular and ribbed; color, 
yellow shading to brownish blush on the sun side; stem, short ina 
broad, medium, greenish, angular cavity; calyx, open in a broad, 
medium deep ridged basin; flesh, rich yellow, nearly pink; flavor, 
mild subacid; season, winter. Probably a chance seedling. 
Ditus Day, of Farmington, had on exhibition a variety named 
Falls Seedling. Size,4to5; form, smooth roundish; color, yellow, 
mostly covered with stripes and splashes of dark red; stem, medium 
in a broad, rather deep cavity, somewhat russeted at the bottom; 
calyx, half open ina shallow basin; flesh, yellow, fine and tender; 
flavor, sweet, very good; season, September. Said to be a seedling 
from Northern Spy. 
The apple that received first premium as best fall seedling was 
produced by O. M. Lord, of Minnesota City. Itis a seedling of the 
Wealthy and much the size, appearance and quality of the Russian 
