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about one hundred varieties showed bloomed last spring and about 
eighty-five perfected some fruit. Itis still too early to report upon 
their merits. The most fruitful tree in the whole orchard is a ten 
year old variety we have named Young’s Greening. It averaged 
about twelve*apples to every foot of limb spaceinthetop. The fruit 
is small to medium in size, fair quality and promises to be a fair 
keeper. About one-third of the Russian varieties are making a 
healthy and medium strong growth, but, so far, the most of them 
do not show a disposition to bear very much fruit while young 
The Longfield, Anisim, Good Peasant and Ostrekof are proving 
exceptions, also, the Transparent family. The Russian Autumn 
Streaked is the worst blighter, and all the Anis family, except the 
Blue, are shy bearers and drop their fruit too early. Weare much 
pleased with the Soiree. The tree is a symmetrical grower, and ap- 
pears to be more hardy than the Wealthy. The fruitis nearly as 
large as the McMahon, of better quality anda longer keeper, and 
the tree nearly free from blight. 
We cannot say much about blight at this time,as we have had 
scarcely any of it the last year, except the spur blight, before al- 
luded to, and that in the Autumn Streaked and some of the Siber- 
ians. As the Peerless is so prominently before the public, we will 
mention that our six trees are all doing finely, and nothing on the 
place looks more promising. One tree bore a single specimen of 
fruit that was larger and better than any I have seen from the or- 
iginal tree. We have not had a single case of blight in the nursery 
except on one tree of the Red Queen. About ten more varieties 
have been added to the nursery list since the last report. 
The last season has averaged the dryest one we have experienced 
for a great number of years, and owing to the drouth and the ex- 
treme heat ofa few days,has proved disastrous to many newly planted 
trees and caused considerable loss to root, grafts—the most so to 
the plums; and all trees, bothin orchard and nursery, have madeless 
than the average annual growth. The new growth appears to have 
generally ripened up well, but ona few varieties the buds began to 
enlarge after the light September rains. The soilis still very dry 
below a depth of six inches. The experiment of using the sand 
cherry as a stock for root grafting the native plum promises to be 
a great success, and the trees upon these stocks withstood the 
drouth and retained their foliage much better than those upon 
native plum. 
We acknowledge the receipt from the central station of trees of 
Russian apricot and Japanese plums and plum and sand cherry 
stocks, most of which we have succeeded in making live. A few of 
our pear trees showed bloom, but none of them perfected fruit ex- 
cept one tree of Flemish Beauty. There is some blight on this var- 
iety, and one of the Russians, a Besemianka, blighted badly. Our 
best or most profitable plums were the Cheney and Rollingstone; 
both produced heavy crops and did not appear to be much affected 
by drouth. The fruit of the Ocheeda, Rockford and Piper's Peach 
was good, but not much ofit. Hawkeye was very poor. The De- 
sotas bore to their fullest capacity, but not more than one-eighth of 
