discouragement.
Plant and care for varieties recommended in the society planting list
and emulate the society motto, "Perseverantia Vincimus."

From replies to letters sent out the following list of varieties
appears to be in favor as the most desirable to plant in this district:

Apples: Wealthy, Okabena, Duchess, Patten's Greening.

Crabs: Florence, Whitney, Lyman's Prolific.

Plums: DeSoto, Hawkeye, Wyant, Wolf.

Raspberries: King, Sunbeam, Minnetonka Ironclad.

Currants: Perfection, Prince Albert, Long Bunch Holland,
Wilder.

Gooseberries: Carrie, Houghton, Downing.

Grapes: Beta, Concord, Delaware.

Hardy Shrubs: Spirea Van Houtii, Hydrangea P.G., Snowball,
Syringa, Tartarian Honeysuckle, Lilac, High-bush Cranberry,
Barberry, Sumac, Elderberry, Golden Leaf Elder, Buckthorn for
hedges.

Hardy Perennials--Flowers: Delphinium, Campanula, Phlox,
Paeonies, Iris, Hermerocallis, Tiger Lilies.

Tender Plants: Dahlias, Gladiolus.

Annual Report, 1915, Mandan, N.D., Trial Station.

W. A. PETERSON, SUPT., MANDAN, N.D.

In the spring of 1914 a number of plums, grapes and raspberries were
received from the Minnesota Fruit-Breeding Farm. The larger part of the
plums were winter killed in 1914-15. Those that survive after a few more
winters may be considered as practically hardy. Those remaining made a
good growth in 1915, but did not bear.

The grapes lived through the winter in good shape, although they had
been covered. These are all Beta seedlings.

The raspberries Nos. 3, 7, and 8, were partly covered and partly left
exposed--all three numbers died to the ground when not protected. No. 4
was received in the spring of 1915 and made a good growth.

Strawberry No. 1017 was received in spring 1915 and bore heavily this
fall but made only a very few runners.

Extensive experiments are being carried on in plant-breeding, pomology,
vegetable gardening, arboriculture and ornamental horticulture, and in
the course of time a lot of valuable information will be gathered.

On the whole the season was backward in spring and the summer was
abnormally cool. There was sufficient rainfall for all crops.

Fruit Growing a Successful Industry in Minnesota.

A. W. RICHARDSON, FRUIT GROWER, HOWARD LAKE, MINN.

It is now about eighteen years since I conceived the idea of fruit
culture as a competency for old age, being then, as no