Traveling west in the fall of 1967, the writer took a side trip to the Horticultural Field Station which the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Crops Research Division, operates at Cheyenne, Wyoming. He was welcomed, briefed and shown around the orchards and trial plantings by Dr. Richard (Dick) Tinus, the Station's plant physiologist, who was also kind enough to supply the apple tree inventory given below.

The Station is located on a rolling plain at the foothills of the Rockies. With its elevation (6,000 feet above sea level), its exposure to scorching winds in the summer, and chilling blasts in the winter, it is representative of the growing conditions of a large rugged area. Climate and geography make it an ideal testing ground for the survival ability of horticultural crops.

A few years ago the emphasis of the testing work was shifted to other crops such as strawberries (quite a treat picked on October 14), flowers and ornamental trees and shrubs. The orchards are still well-kept and sanitary though no longer irrigated. Crop production is immaterial; as soon as a tree dies it is removed and not replaced.

The listing below shows the apple varieties surviving at the time of the most recent inventory in 1964. It is likely that some trees have since been lost. The survivors, many of which are classified as crabs, because of their less than 2" diameter, have clearly proven their ability to resist drought in the summer and wind-chill in the winter. Scionwood of these varieties is available; requests should be sent to Mr. Miles Roberts, our Editor of Apple Source Lists, who will assemble and send them out in a pooled order. Deadline for orders is November 30, 1968.

Miles T. Roberts, Editor-Apple Source Lists, will handle the assembling, packaging and mailing of this material. He is a collector of varieties of apples, notably of promising seedlings; also of fancy beans and open pollinated seed corn.