Discussion. 245 



By request of the Secretary of the Minnesota State Horti- 

 cultural Society I wrote up an account of the Jessie which 

 was by some doubted and our worthy president was called 

 on lo testify, and here is the report as found in The Fanner, 

 St. Paul, January 27, 1887. 



" J. F. Grimes, treasurer, made his annual report : Total 

 receipts, '$1,26:3.98 ; disbursements, $l,:^3(i.91. A paper on 

 the Jessie strawberry, by Geo. J. Kellogg, Janesville, Wis., 

 was read by the secretary. After the reading of th^ paper, 

 doubts were expressed as to its reliability, and Mr. J. M. 

 Smith, of Green Bay, Wis., was called upon for further in- 

 formation. He said he was one of the committee of the 

 State Horticultural Society of Wisconsin to visit the place 

 where the berries are growing. They showed up as the finest 

 berry he had ever seen. He could have picked bushels that 

 would average four inches in diameter, but did not know 

 how they would do away from their home which was near 

 Janesville, Wis. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Adams here spoke of a request which had been 

 made to have a cut of the Jessie strawberry inserted in the 

 next volume of transaction, and asked for an expression of 

 opinion from the members of the society. 



Mr. Hoxie thought it would be a good idea if all pro- 

 ducers would furnish plates. 



Pres. Smith said, in speaking of a strawberry of which he 

 had given a report at the Minnesota Horticultural meeting, 

 that it was the largest berry he had ever seen; that one 

 berry was brought him which measured nearly nine inches 

 in circumference; that six of them would fill an ordinary 

 box, and that seven berries would make it heaping full. 

 Three berries would make one layer in an ordinary quart 

 box. 



Mr. Plumb stated that a year ago last fall he fitted some 

 ground with extra care for some Manchester and Wilsons, 

 and the day he was getting ready to set, he received a letter 

 from Mr. Ljudo n, together wiih 12 plants, asking him to 



