[Illustration:  Ornamental Purple Leaf Plum, originated at State Fruit-Breeding Farm.]

In grapes we have several varieties worthy of propagation, but I will just mention two varieties.  One is a red grape about the size of Wyoming Red.  The bunches are large and very compact; the season for ripening is about with Moore’s Early; the quality is good enough to make it a table grape.  The vine is just as hardy as Beta grape, of which it is a seedling.  It has good foliage and the vine is a rank grower.  The other variety is black when ripe, nearly as large as Moore’s Early.  The fruit is ripe first part of August; the vine is vigorous and hardy.

Strawberries and raspberries were a good crop this year, but all other fruit was a total failure on account of the killing frost and snowstorm on May 18th.  Apples were in full bloom at the time, and a good crop of plums had set on the trees, but all fell off a few days later.  There were no currants or gooseberries and only a few grapes.

Mr. Waldron:  What do you think the male parent was of the red grape?

Mr. Haralson:  I couldn’t say.  We don’t know what the cross is.

Mr. Waldron:  Did you have any red grapes growing there?

Mr. Haralson:  I presume there were quite a number of varieties growing near by.  In the Beta seedlings we find a number of grapes that ripen green and also some black and a number red, but not a great many, I would say from five to seven per cent of the seedlings.

Mr. Wellington:  Have you been able to cross the European plum with the Japanese?

Mr. Haralson:  We have one or two varieties, but the fruit is very small, the fruit isn’t very much larger than the Compass cherry.  The tree is a very strong grower and makes a large tree, but the fruit is not up to what it should be.

Mr. Cook:  What number do you hold that red grape under?

Mr. Haralson:  The red grape is No. 1.

Mr. Sauter:  Which is the next best raspberry besides the No. 4?

Mr. Haralson:  I couldn’t tell you at present.  I thought the No. 2, but from reports I have had from several places some think No. 1 is better.  No. 4 is the best of them all so far.

A Member:  I would like to ask which of those raspberries is the best quality.

Mr. Haralson:  They run very much the same, very little difference in the quality.  The quality I should say compares very favorably with the King.

The President:  Those of you who know of the wonderful work done by Mr. Haralson can not help but say, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”  He has surely accomplished wonderful results out there, and the people of this state and adjoining states will all in time enjoy the fruits of his labor. (Applause.)

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KILL WILD ONIONS IN NOVEMBER.—­The secret of the vitality of the wild onion lies in the two sorts of underground bulbs.  Each plant produces one large bulb, which germinates in the fall, and four or five small ones, which start growth in the spring.