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Of the seeds you sent me, I gave what I did not plant myself to the natives here, 

 and some of them raised some very good gardens, for the first working of the ground. 

 I will give the grains a trial next year. 



Clover and timothy I know will grow here, as it has come up where Captain Glenn 

 had his hay piled, when he wintered his stock here, and is still growing, which 

 proves that it does not kill out in the winter. 



Should you send me some more seeds I will do the best I can with them. It will 

 be a material help to the natives here to get them to raising gardens, as game seems 

 to be getting scarcer every year, and unless the Government gives them some assist- 

 ance they will, before long, have a hard time to live. 



Thanking you for your past favors, I remain, yours, truly, 



G. W. Palmer. 



Prof. C. C. Georgeson, Sitka, Alaska. 



REPORT FROM SUNRISE. 



Sunrise, Alaska, October 25, 1900. 



Sir: Last spring I received a package of garden seeds from you, and a circular 

 requesting accounts of the results obtained from efforts of gardening in this vicinity. 



Owing to inexperience or ignorance, only the cabbage, turnips, peas, and potatoes 

 turned out middling well. The cabbage formed heads weighing from 8 pounds 

 down. One of the turnips measured 2 feet \ inch in circumference and weighed 8 

 pounds, all of first-class quality. The peas and potatoes did very well; particularly 

 those planted from seed of last season came up and blossomed two weeks earlier than 

 those from seeds obtained from the States, which would seem to indicate an advan- 

 tage in planting seeds grown in Alaska. 



The land is new, and three years ago was covered thickly with spruce timber, 

 stumps measuring from 1 to 2\ feet in diameter. Soil thin on top of gravel and 

 bowlders. Fertilized mainly by wood ashes, particularly where the large stumps 

 were burned out. 



The experiments will be continued on an enlarged scale next year. It is intended 

 to manure the lands with horse dung, and plant onions, parsnips, carrots, beets, 

 cauliflower, and kale, in addition to the vegetables that flourished in the patch this 

 year. 



A. Larson. 



Prof. C. C. Georgeson, Sitka, Alaska. 



GARDEN SEEDS PLANTED AT COAL HARBOR, UNGA ISLAND, ALASKA, IN 1900. 



Coal Harbor, Alaska, October 24, 1901. 

 Dear Sir: Herewith please find my report upon the seeds which you sent me. 

 Gardening with us is an old business. Some of your seeds did not do as well as they 

 should have done, being perhaps not of the very best. The best of all would per- 

 haps be those seeds raised from the soil where they are to be replanted. This is 

 particularly true of potatoes and turnips. Your kale was a perfect success, continu- 

 ing well into the winter months. Yearnings toward muskmelons and cucumbers are 

 utterly hopeless, however. With us corn has proved a failure, but on the other 

 hand, barley has matured and did well. 



No. 1. Turnips, planted May 12, above ground May 21, harvested August. 

 No. 2, Kale, planted May 20, above ground June 1, harvested August. 

 No. 3, Radish, planted May 20, above ground June 1, harvested June 18. 



