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badly here, and the same was true of it in the two other places where 
we saw it growing. The Pride of Minneapolis crab was also very 
productive here. The Cheney plum trees seen at this place are very 
large and were bearing a tremendous crop of fruit. It was the finest 
thing in the plum line that we had ever seen. 
On Friday we visited Mr. Wm. Somerville, of Eyota, Olmsted coun- 
ty. He has a large, old orchard of the standard kinds and a good, 
young orchard of the newer sorts. We found the Malinda top- 
worked on Transcendent bearing heavily, one large tree bearing 
probably fifteen bushels of fruit. Sweet Russet is highly esteemed 
by Mr. Somerville. One of his Transcendent trees measures fifty- 
eight inches and is sound every way. The Striped Anis was doing 
well. The trees are large and sound but not very fruitful. Other 
trees looking well are the Kourk Anis, White Pigeon, Longfield, 
Juicy Bur, Repka Malenka and Rollin’s Prolific. 
The raspberries here are in excellent health and very productive. 
They are grown in rows seven feet apart and the whole ground 
heavily mulched. Mr. Somerville prides himself on his garden, 
which was in an exceptionally flourishing condition. He has most 
of his apple trees tied together by inarching twigs from one main 
branch into another. Some of these grafted branches are several 
inches in diameter and make giving away in the crotches almost an 
impossibility. 
Friday afternoon we took in Mr. R. C. Keel’s place as we bicycled 
it from Eyota to Rochester. Mr. Keel hasa very light crop of apples 
this year. Here we found the Virginia crab doing especially well. 
Several of the trees spread fully thirty feet. Mr. Keel says he pre- 
fers this to the Transcendent, as the trees do not blight, and the 
fruit keeps longer. The Wealthy is here doing especially well top- 
grafted on Transcendent crab. The Gilbert is an apple resembling 
the Duchess but is several weeks later; itis productive and healthy, 
The Minnesota crab was doing especially well. 
From Rochester we drove to Hammond to the home of Mr. Sidney 
Corp. The land here is very high prairie. The orchard is enclosed 
on all but the east side with windbreaks. His original planting was 
made twenty-eight years ago, and of these the Duchess and a few 
other kinds are in almost perfect condition. Here we saw large, 
heavily laden, thrifty trees of the McMahon, Brett No. 2, Hibernal, 
White Pigeon and Anisim apples and Minnesota and Strawberry 
crabs. The Avista and Autumn Streaked apples were badly 
blighted. 
We spent Saturday at the Owatonna Experiment Station. The 
work of this station has so often been reported on by its able super- 
intendent, E. H.S. Dartt, that it would be superfluous to refer to it 
at length here, except to say that his valuable work is originating 
many new kinds of apples, and that there is growing here a remark. 
ably large and promising lot of seedling apple trees whose future 
should interest every friend of horticulture. 
PROF. S. B. GREEN. 
