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gins to freeze in the fall cover all the beds with wild hay, using just 
enough to cover them and no more. This is removed the latter 
part of the following April, and the trees will require no attention 
during the summer except to be kept clean from weeds. The next 
fall treat the beds to another covering of hay and the following 
spring you will have, if you have closely followed my directions, in 
spite of possibly some severe losses, 2,000 or more trees on each four 
feet length of bed, two years old and from three to ten inchesin 
height, ready to be transplanted. 
MONTHLY REPORT ON NOMENCLATURE AND SEED- 
LINGS. 
J. S. HARRIS. 
August 27th, Received from L. J. Gjemse, Hader, Minnesota, three 
varieties of native plums. No. 1. Medium large (1 3-16 inch 
diameter); form round; color deep red; skin thick but without 
acridity; flesh orange and apricot-yellow and fair consistency, sweet 
and excellent flavor; stone medium size, round and thick; nearly a 
cling; season, September first. 
No.2. Size medium to large (1144 inch diameter); color dark 
crimson-red and skin very thickly covered with minute yellow 
dots; form round; flesh yellow, juicy, sweet; stone medium round: 
thick and very smooth; season, September first. 
No.3. Medium (11-16 inch diameter); form round; color yellow, 
marbled with red; flesh yellow, with juicy flavor and very good; 
stone medium round and thick; acling. We should judge that all 
three varieties would cook well, and would fill an important place 
between the Cheney and the Desota. 
August 27th. Received from Theodore Williams, Benson, Neb. | 
plums marked— 
Brittle Wood No.1. Size very large (diameter, 15g inches); form 
smooth and round; color yellow ground, mostly covered with deep 
red and very thickly set with irregular grey dots; suture, a plain 
deep crimson mark without any depression; skin thick; flesh orange- 
yellow and of good consistency; flavor number one; season, about 
Sept. first; stone medium, round and thick; a cling. It keeps well 
and will be a good plum for market, 
Sept. 3d. From N. FE. Durand. A Russian apple, name of which 
proves to be Antonovka. 
In quality the Antonovka is one of the best of the Russian apples, 
Size medium to large; form roundish or oval, somewhat flattened 
at the ends; color, straw or light yellow, with enough fine grayish 
dots to give the skin a little rough appearance; stem short, in a 
deep, ridged, dark-russeted cavity; calyx closed in a medium deep 
ridged basin; flesh nearly yellow; fine flavor, pleasant and good; 
core medium; season, September and October. This tree is a sym- 
metrical, upright grower, among the most vigorous of the Russians, 
and with us as hardy as the Oldenburg. 
