Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 | Page 7

3.00 12 Roses (yellow) "
" Second 2.00 12 Roses (pink) Hans Rosacker, Minneapolis Second
2.00 12 Roses (red) " " Second 2.00 12 Roses (white) " " Second 2.00
12 Carnations (white) " " First 3.00 12 Carnations (pink) " " Second
2.00 12 Carnations (red) " " First 3.00 25 Carnations (red) Minneapolis
Floral Co. Second 2.00 25 Carnations (pink) " " First 3.00 25
Carnations (white) " " Third 1.00 12 Chrysanthemums (yellow) John E.

Sten, Red Wing First 4.00 12 Chrysanthemums (any color) " " First
4.00 12 Chrysanthemums (any color) Minneapolis Floral Co. Second
3.00 12 Chrysanthemums (yellow) L. S. Donaldson Co., Mpls. Second
3.00 12 Chrysanthemums (any color) " " Third 2.00
FLOWERS.
Basket for Effect Minneapolis Floral Co. First $10.00 Bridesmaid
Bouquet Minneapolis Floral Co. First Diploma Corsage Bouquet
Minneapolis Floral Co. First Diploma Bridal Bouquet Minneapolis
Floral Co. First Diploma
O. J. OLSON, Judge.

Judging Contest of Hennepin County High Schools.
(Held at Annual Meeting, December 9, 1915.)
The contest consisted of the judging of three crops, apples, potatoes
and corn. Two varieties of each crop were used.
Each school was represented by a team of three men. Each man was
allowed 100 as perfect score on each crop or a total perfect team score
of 900 points.
Two high schools entered the contest, namely Central High,
Minneapolis, and Wayzata High. Central High, of Minneapolis, won
first with a total score of 697.8. Wayzata ranked second with a score of
672.
Minneapolis won on apples and potatoes, Wayzata winning on the corn
judging.
Chester Groves, of Wayzata, was high man of the contest.
County Adviser K. A. Kirkpatrick, gives a banner to the winning
school. Judges of the contest were: Apples, Prof. T. M. McCall,

Crookston; potatoes, Prof. R. Wellington, A. W. Aamodt; corn, Prof. R.
L. Mackintosh.

Fruit Judging Contest.
(At Annual Meeting, December, 1915.)
One of the important features of the Wednesday afternoon program of
the State Horticultural Society was the apple judging contest. This
contest was open to all members of the society and students of the
Agricultural College.
The contest consisted of the judging of four plates each of ten standard
varieties. The total score of each contestant was considered by allowing
10 per cent for identification of varieties, 40 per cent for oral reasons
and 50 per cent for correct placings.
The prizes offered were: First, $5.00; second, $3.00; third, $2.00. D.C.
Webster of La Crescent, ranked first; P.L. Keene, University Farm,
second; and Marshall Hertig, third.
Score First--D. C. Webster 87-1/2 Second--P. L. Keene 81-1/2
Third--Marshall Hertig 77-1/2 Fourth--Timber Lake 76-1/2
There were twelve men in the contest.
Judges: Prof. T. M. McCall, Crookston; Frederick Cranefield,
Wisconsin; Prof. E. C. Magill, Wayzata.

Annual Report, 1915, Collegeville Trial Station.
REV. JOHN B. KATZNER, SUPT.
It is with pleasure and satisfaction that we are able to make a material
correction of our estimate of this year's apple crop as noted in our
midsummer report. We stated that apples would be about 15 per cent of

a normal crop, and now we are happy to say it was fully 30 per cent.
We picked twice as many apples as we anticipated. Considering that, as
Prof. Le Roy Cady informed us, the apple crop would be rather small
farther south and that they would practically get no apples at the State
Farm, we may well be satisfied with our crop. In general, the apple
crop was not so bad farther north as it was farther south in the state.
This may have been due to the blossoms not being so far advanced here
when the frost touched them as farther south.
The best bearing varieties this year were the Wealthy, Charlamoff and
Duchess, in the order named. These three kinds gave us the bulk of the
crop. The Wealthy trees were not overloaded, and the apples were
mostly fine, clean and large. The Charlamoffs were bearing a heavy
crop of beautiful, large-sized apples and were ahead of the Duchess this
year. The Hibernals, too, were fairly good bearers. Most other varieties
had some fruit, but it was not perfect; it showed only too well the effect
of frost. More than half of the blossoms were destroyed. Many flowers
were badly injured and though they were setting fruit the result of frost
showed off plainly on the apples. While some had normal size and
form, many of them were below size, gnarled, cracked or undeveloped
and abnormal. Most all of them had rough blotches or rings about the
calix or around the body. Malformed apples were picked not larger than
a crab, with rough, cracked, leather-like skin, which looked more like a
black walnut than an apple.
Of plums only some young trees gave us a good crop of nice, perfect