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growing pears, apples and small fruits like the rest of ns, with al)out 

 the same success as the average. But the largest part of their money 

 is made on these specialties. All of them are rea])ing a ])ecuniary 

 reward from their efforts to reach a higher grade of ' excellence in a 

 siuirlr kind of fruit. 



REPORT OF THE DELEGATE TO THE IOWA STATE 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BY C. N. DENNIS, HAMILTON. 



ijeaviiig Keokuk at 8 i'. M., January lUth, over the Des Moines 

 division of the C, R. I. & P., we were side-tracked during the night 

 at Des Moines and crossed over to the Morgan House in time for 

 breakfast. Here we found most of the members of the Horticul- 

 tural Society (this hotel being headquarters) and enjoyed a good 

 breakfast with our old acquaintances, and made some new ones in 

 the two hours between breakfast and the time of meeting. At D a. 

 >i.. in com|)any with President Wilson, we went to Grand Army 

 Hall, where the meeting was held. Here I was duly introduced to 

 the meeting as an accredited delegate from the State Society of Ill- 

 inois. We found A. E. Van Deman, of Geneva, Kansas; J. C. Plumb 

 and J. K. Jewett, of Wisconsin; and that old veteran, Peter M. 

 Oideon. of Minnesota (the originator of the Wealthy Apple), as 

 visiting delegates. Iowa is divided into twelve districts and a direc- 

 tor assigned to each district, who reports the status of horticultural 

 interest in his district; and were I to follow out the report of each, 

 my paper would he far too long, so I will generalize. Apples were 

 re|)orted as more or less injured throughout the State, and very 

 badly so throughout the eastern and northern portions. There was 

 a portion of the southwestern, and e.^tendiug u]) into, perhaps, 

 southern central Iowa, where they had an abundant crop of fruit; 

 but in most of the State very little, aiul in some parts none. The 

 State is also divided into tliree districts. Northern, Central and South- 

 ern, with standing committees to report varieties for cultivation. 

 These reports brought out much discussion, as the northern district 

 reported only Duchess, Whitney and Tetofsky: and after being dis- 

 cussed from the stand-point of natives and Russians, and an addi- 

 tion made to the committee, it was referred back for reconsidera- 

 tion and finally reported and adopted with the addition of Wealthy 

 to the list. Central list was for Sununer: Duchess, Sops of Wine, 

 Benoni, Coles Quince, Sweet June. Fall: Wealthy, Fall-Orange, 

 Dyer, Famuse. Autumn Strawberry. Flory BellHower, Jiowell 

 and Maiden's Blush. Winter: Willow, Ben Davis, Pewaukee, Ro- 

 man Stem, Jonathan, Walbridge, Seever, Sheriff and Tallman's Sweet. 



