ond premium, $2.00.
Progressive, Mrs. H. B. Tillotson, Excelsior, first premium, $1.00.
Bederwood, H. G. Groat, Anoka, first premium, $1.00.
Dunlap, H. G. Groat, Anoka, second premium, $0.75.
Crescent, H. G. Groat, Anoka, first premium, $1.00.
Warfield, H. G. Groat, Anoka, first premium, $1.00.
Warfield, Mrs. M. A. Rohan, Minneapolis, second premium, $0.75.
Senator Dunlap, J. F. Bartlett, Excelsior, first premium, $1.00.
Minnesota No. 3, J. F. Bartlett, Excelsior, first premium, $1.00.
Minnesota No. 3, A. Brackett, Excelsior, second premium, $0.75.
Americus, A. Brackett, Excelsior, first premium, $1.00.
Progressive, A. Brackett, Excelsior, second premium, $0.75.
Superb, A. Brackett, Excelsior, first premium, $1.00.
Best named variety, Mrs. H. B. Tillotson, Excelsior, first premium, $2.00.
Best named variety, H. G. Groat, Anoka, second premium, $1.00.
Best named variety, Mrs. John Gantzer, St. Paul, third premium, $0.50.
Seedling, A. Brackett, Excelsior, first premium, $3.00.

THOMAS REDPATH, Judge.

Experiment Work of Chas. G. Patten, Charles City, Ia.

GEO. J. KELLOGG, LAKE MILLS, WIS.

June 6.--I have just spent four days with our friend Patten. He has
7,000 surprises on seventeen acres of experiment orchard dating back to
1868--every tree of the 7,000 has a history.

For twenty-eight years he has been working on the Chinese sand pear and
has brought out a race that is blight-proof, perfectly hardy and of good
size and quality. He is not yet satisfied, but has 5,000 cross-bred
seedlings of many crosses that are about three feet high, ready for
transplanting in orchard rows next spring--and he has not room to set
them. The state of Iowa does not appreciate his labor or value the work
he has done and is doing; they are not giving him the money or men to
carry on this work.

Beside the pear experiments he has hundreds of crosses of apples that
are very promising and just coming into bearing. These are scattered all
through that orchard of 7,000 trees, with the pears, and nearly as many
plum crosses. Some plums are heavily loaded this year that are of
wonderful value, and one of the great points is that they have escaped
the bad weather in blooming time, while all our standard varieties
failed--and I believe the hardiness of bloom will insure fruit on his
best kinds when others fail in bad weather.

He is breeding form of tree in all these fruits--see his paper in the
last volume of Iowa Hort. Report. Hi