178 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
addition to the list in size, quality andappearance. The Ocheeda is 
somewhat later and of excellent quality. One of the Japan piums, 
the Ogon, ripened some fruit July fifteenth; fruit large, yellow and 
of fine appearance, but in quality for eating does not compare 
favorably with our best natives. 
MONTEVIDEO EXPERIMENT STATION. 
L, R. MOYER, SUPT. 
The autumnal report already published in the “ Minnesota Horti- 
culturist,” covers nearly everything there is to report from this 
station. What is now reported on is something of a repetition of 
former reports. 
Early Planting. The season was a very dry and trying one on 
all kinds of vegetation. 
The beneficial effects of early planting were very apparent. A 
package of trees from the Iowa Agricultural College was received 
just as the frost was going out,and they were planted atonce. Nearly 
every tree grew. A package of trees from the central experiment 
station and a package from a well conducted nursery came late, 
after the dry, hot weather had setin. Nearly every tree from these 
late plantings failed. 
Conifers. Some complaint has been made that the white spruc 
trees at Montevideo are failing; but on our grounds where the trees 
were heavily mulched and cultivated, they are in perfect condition. 
The trees are too young, however, to enable us to say any more of 
them than thatthey promise well. The balsam fir, for example, is 
equally promising on our grounds, although it is known to be 
short-lived and of little value even in its native habitat. Our native 
juniper is at home on our dry bluffs. Itis so dark colored in winter 
as to need something to brighten it up. I know of nothing better 
for this purpose than the Mugho pine. A cluster of tall, dark 
junipers, with their irregular outlines, enlivened by a few speci- 
mens of this dwarf pine planted in front of it forms a beautiful 
picture. Dry and trying as are the winters of western Minnesota, 
the Mugho pine is always green. 
Poplars. The publication of Prof. Bailey’s bulletin on the culti- 
vated poplars makes it necessary to revise our nomenclature of 
these trees. Our certinensis poplar becomes populus laurifolia. 
Our pyramid poplar and laurel-leaved poplar both become forms 
of populus balsamifera var. intermedia. Our Dudley poplar be- 
comes populus balsamifera, var. virminalis. Our birch-leaved 
poplar which we have been calling a native species, becomes 
populus nigra, a many formed European species. 
Our Bolles poplar becomes populus alba var. Bolleana. Our un- 
named poplar is probably a Russian form of the typical populus 
balsamifera. 
It is an open question as to whether or not the trees will do better 
under their new names, but it isa great gain to have the nomencla- 
ture settled. 
