ripened in this vicinity. We quit spraying our fruit
trees when the freeze came last spring and destroyed the apple crop, and
the result has been that there was much scab on the foliage of many
varieties of our apple trees. The Antonovka and the Hibernal seem to be
about the healthiest in this respect. As to the fire blight there has
been absolutely none at this station the season just passed.

As for plums we got a few bushels in the final roundup, De Sotos, Wolfs
and Wyants mostly. Of the Japanese hybrids, we got a few specimens of
the B.A.Q. The Emerald bore freely, but the fruit mostly either was
destroyed by the brown rot or cracked badly just as they were getting
ripe. The Tokata, one of Hansen's hybrids, gave us specimens of very
fine fruit.

Of the apricot hybrids only the Hanska made any pretense of trying to
bear anything, but the curculio got away with about all of them.

When I made the midsummer report most of Hansen's sand cherry hybrids
were promising a good crop, but with the exception of the Enopa and
Kakeppa, from which we gathered a few quarts of fruits, we got nothing.
The brown rot, assisted by the curculio, took them all. It sure looks
as if we ever expect to make a general success with these sand cherry
hybrids and with the Japanese hybrids, we will have to be better
educated along the line of controlling this disease that is so very
destructive to the fruit of some varieties of plums, especially of those
varieties that have sand cherry or Japanese blood in them.

[Illustration: A veteran white spruce at Mr. Cook's place.]

[Illustration: Specimen Colorado blue spruce at Dewain Cook's.]

We have to report a grand success with everbearing strawberry No. 1017,
sent to this station from our State Fruit-Breeding Farm last spring. The
season all through was favorable for that class of fruit. We kept all
blossoms picked off till about the first of August, when we let
everything grow, and there is a great number of new plants. These new
plants, with a few exceptions, did not bear, but the old plants, the
ones set last spring, we gathered from them, from about September 15
till the first hard frost, October 5th, a liberal crop of surprisingly
fine fruit. The Americus, also an everbearing variety, treated exactly
as we did Minnesota 1017, bore a great number of plants and some fruit
in the fall. The berries were not so large as the 1017 nor so many of
them. While it is a perfect flowering variety, mo