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Longfield. The tree seems to be a better grower than Longfield. 
At present it is known as Lord’s. I saw at Mr. Lord’s place one other 
tree, perhaps fifteen years old, that may be worth looking after. The 
tree is thrifty, sound and apparently very hardy and more exempt 
from blight than any other variety on the place. We have traced 
the tree back to its origin and find that it was raised from seed by 
Mr. Holt of Winona county and propagated to some extent by Mr. 
McHenry of the St. Charles Nurseries and proved the hardiest and 
only survivor out ofa batch of 500. The fruit is really good in 
quality. Flavor, subacid, sweet; season, September. 
Ina trip through Houston Co., we almost accidently discovered 
four trees of an unknown variety, bearing a full crop of as beautiful 
apples as we ever saw. Should judge the trees to be about sixteen 
years old and without blemish. We learn they were procured from 
the nursery of Charles Waters, Vernon Co., Wis., as a new variety of 
’ seedlings. The fruit is most beautiful in appearance and keeps un- 
til January, but is not of high quality. It is locally known as Lay- 
lank Beauty?, but we have it under investigation and think it is the 
Kaighn’s Spitzenburg, also known as Red Pearman, Long John, 
etc., that was quite a favorite in Ohio some forty years since. 
Jacob Klein, of Hokah, has a large, fine, sweet seedling that 
fruited this iast year. I shall watch it closely and if it shows evi- 
dences of extreme hardiness, will have it placed in our experiment 
station. 
The largest collection of seedlings shown at the state fair was 
from my own place, but I would not like to say that any of them will 
prove to be the fruit we are so earnestly looking for. Some of them 
will never be shown again,as we considered them so near worthless 
for any purpose except to win state fair money that we have had 
them grubbed out to make room for others. The next largest col- 
lection was exhibited by George Miller, Rice Co. They were a fair 
lot, and, as they were generally produced from varieties of excep- 
tional hardiness, we may reasonably hope for something valuable 
from them. I have seen the trees but not bearing,and several of them 
have good habits of growth and the appearance of hardiness, but 
they are not old enough to have passed through one of our test 
winters. Scions of the most promising have been furnished Mr. 
Dartt for the Owatonna station. 
The Estaline crab, originated by O. F. Brand, has notbeen suffici- 
ently noticed before. Itis believed to be a hybrid of the Palmer crab. 
The tree is sixteen years old,an early and abundant bearer. We 
have seen the original tree in bearing and a two year old top-worked 
tree fruited in our experiment orchard last year. The fruit is 
rather larger than Whitney No. 20 and fully as good in quality. The 
tree is a much better bearer, and at Mr. Brand’s place looks to be 
more hardy than the Whitney. An excellent apple was sent to us 
fora name from A. Wacklander, Blue Earth City, Minn. It does not 
correspond with any variety with which we are familiar and may be 
a seedling. The fruit is above medium in size, of good quality; 
season, late autumn. We only note it here for future reference. 
Young’s Greening was awarded the second premium at the state 
fair as the best winter seedling on exhibition. This variety origi- 
