184 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Blight has been more general than ever before, but has been mostly 
confined to small branches, so that the damage has not been very 
serious. Until some effectual remedy for blight shall have been 
discovered, it will be best not to plant blighting kinds, for if such 
varieties are well cultivated and well manured, they are likely to be 
ruined by blight, and without this treatment the orchard will soon 
be ruined by starvation. The drouth was very severe. Root grafts, of 
which about 4,000 were planted, did poorly,and a large proportion of 
newly planted trees failed to grow. About 2,000 small evergreens 
were planted, two-thirds of which were saved by irrigation. 6,000 
root grafts, of more than 200 varieties, are being made for next 
spring’s planting. 
While I have the condition of every orchard tree marked on my 
record,I have concluded to abridge here and only mark each variety 
in sucha way as to show itsaverage condition. HARDINESS or vigor 
is shown by figures: 1 extra being best, 1 good, 2 poor, 3 very poor 
and 0 dead. BLIGHT is shown by B with minus and plus signs: B— 
very little blight, B considerable blight, B+ much blight, BX ruined 
by blight. A few varieties were neglected two years ago and will 
likely improve in the future. I wish to call attention to the Long- 
worth pear, which has been doing remarkably wel) forthe lastthree 
years. 
PEARS. 25 T 1B Phoenix No. 32 3 
- eee Bs se We. oH 1 Ee 
No. 34 + Unknown = 0. 56 
tebe Saas 1B  * No.50 1 
6 304 ae nano 1 iS £¢ Now te 2 
eworth 1 Ex « : erabd Xx 
Ronee Bek Patton’s Russet 1 Ex a NOR 1 Ex 
Whitney No. 20 1 Magnet (Peffer) 1B 
CHERRIES. Unknown 1 Seed R 1 
Greenwood 1 Seed P 2 
Budd’s Autograph 1 Tetofsky 1 DH Nog 1 
Tutovka 1Ex Rus 190 2B— Arthur (Patton) 1 Ex 
Linder _ 2 Hislop crab 0—BX Rus 413, true 1 
Early Richmond 1 Seed J 1B— Excelsior 1 
Utah Hybrid 1 Rus 243 1 B— Isham crab 1 Ex 
Orel No. 24 3 DH No.3 1B— Gideon’s Sept. 1 
ee Ct 3 DH Graft Oct. 1 ve Peter 2 
ss xo x 2 : 2 Bee are erab 3 
tS. arly Strawberry nknown 
Hawkeye eas 1 Unknown 1B— Silken 1 
Cheney 1 18M Anisim 1Ex Hotchkiss 1B 
Wyant 1 Unknown 1B— Duchess 1 Ex 
Rollingstone 1 Kimball 0 DHNo.1 2 
Weaver 1 Dartt’s Porch 0BX Unknown 1 Ex 
Hillman 1% Milton crab 1 Red Bark crab 1 Ex 
Speer 1 DH top graft Duch No. 8 (Pat.) 1 Ex 
Wolt 14% Miller’s Seedling 1 Jowa Beauty 2 
Garden 2 Seed D 2 Rus 120 M = 0 
Rockford 1 Seed L 1 3M 2 
Owatonna, (not true) Reponka 2B Wealthy 1% 
Miner 1 Minn. crab 1 Gideon's Lou 1% 
White Nicholas 2 Unknown Rus. 2B+ Mills’ Seedling 1% 
Black Prune 9 Red Anis 1 Shields’ crab 1 Ex 
Patton’s Native 2 Rus, unknown 3 Palmer’s Sweet 1 
Early Red 1% Avista (Phillips) 1 Mitchell’s Seedling 2 
Gates jy Phillips No. 2 1 Extra Borovinka 1 
Black Hawk 1 Bevel Glass 1 Haas 2 
Ocheeda { Shining Aromatic 1Ex Baldwin Seed 1 
Desota 1 oe aborts 1 pos “ ret Ce poe : 
; ; Stepanof 2 steline (Bran 
EELS ene ; Heidorn 164 2B-— No. 19 1 Ex 
man Borsdorf 356 2B+ Champaign Pip 1 Ex 
APPLES. Moscow 1B 6 Vor 1 Ex 
Arabian 1Ex 21T 3 
Gideon’s Jan. 1 Vineuse 1 Good Peasant if 
fs Oct. 1 DH Seed 1Ex Rus 224 1 Ex 
Gideon 2 Phoenix No.5? \ 1Ex —“ 103 1 Ex 
Gibb crab 1% me Duch 49 1 Browery 1 
Kourk’s Anis B+ ss Fall OrangeSd. 2B Transparent 1 Ex 
