Trees, fruits, and flowers of Minnesota . ially adapted to the northernportion of this state and other places where the season is short. The Compass cherry (a sand cherry and plum hybrid) pro-duced a large crop of fruit, but much of it was destroyed by themonilia and rotted on the trees. Among the cherries that fruitedwith us this year were Early Richmond, Wragg and GeorgeGlass, but most of our varieties had their fruit buds killed so CENTRAL TRIAL STATION, ANNUAL REPORT. 43 that there were few flowers that opened. Choke cherry No. 4,which was sent out by Mr. Knudson, of Sleepy Eye, has pro-du
Trees, fruits, and flowers of Minnesota . ially adapted to the northernportion of this state and other places where the season is short. The Compass cherry (a sand cherry and plum hybrid) pro-duced a large crop of fruit, but much of it was destroyed by themonilia and rotted on the trees. Among the cherries that fruitedwith us this year were Early Richmond, Wragg and GeorgeGlass, but most of our varieties had their fruit buds killed so CENTRAL TRIAL STATION, ANNUAL REPORT. 43 that there were few flowers that opened. Choke cherry No. 4,which was sent out by Mr. Knudson, of Sleepy Eye, has pro-duced large crops of fruit for a number of years. The fruit is oflarge size, but seems to be of very little value either for cookingpurposes or for eating out of hand. However, it might be de-sirable for especially severe locations, as it is perfectly hardy. In our seedling orchard 125 seedlings fruited. Of these fiftywere of fair size and of some promise. Of these perhaps one-third will keep in a common cellar until the middle of PINUS PONDEROSA. Illustration shows the rate of growth of the Pinus ponderosa. It will be notedthat the plants are very vigorous in appearance. These were raised from seed sownat the experiment station about nine years ago, The seed of this tree grows veryreadily and seldom is troublesome about damping off. This is an evergreen that Norby, of Madison, South Dakota, says that he has grown successfully whenplanted in prairie sod at his home. It is the only pine found in South Dakota andNebraska. There is a form of this that is found on the west slope of the Rocky Mountainsand Coast Range, but it is not so hardy as the form shown here, which comes fromColorado and the eastern slopes. The seed of this species is quite cheap. A short time ago a friend of mine in theemploy of the United States Government wrote me from New Mexico that he hadgathered about 1,500 pounds of it,which shows how abundant it must be in some places. About 500 plum seed
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