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HISTORY OF HORTICULTURE IX MINNESOTA. 



of Oldenburg, Tetofsky, Faiiieuse, Red Astrichaii, Haas, and Perry Russet are 

 yet ftivorites and have scarcely been improved upon as hardy and desirable 

 fruits ; that iu regard to grapes the Concord, Delaware, Clinton and Hartford 

 Prolific still find strong advocates. So of other points insisted upon by those 

 who have since had the benefits of experiments reaching to the present time ; 

 so that it may well be repeated, and insisted upon, that the debates thus 

 given in full, may well be dated from as a landmark in regard to all that has 

 occurred since. 



THE MEETING AT MINNEAPOLIS, 1868. 



The next meeting of the " Fruit Growers' Association" — as it continued to 

 be designated — took place at Minneapolis, on Sept. 30th, 1868. The list of 

 members present comprising the following names, recognized at a glance as 

 the staunchest friends of the cause through whatever of discouragement It has 

 passed : 



mi:mbers 1868. 



CoL D. A. Robertson, St. Paul. 



L. M. Ford, 



SVm. L. Ames, " " 



I). A. J. Baker, 



Truman M. Smith, 



W. E. Brimhall, 



Genl. Munch, '• " 



W. L. Wilson, 



Geo. Scotten, *' " 



Thomas T. Smith, 



J. T. Grimes, Minneapolis. 



J. B. Fleischer, " " 



Wyman Elliot, " " 



Col. J. H. Stevens, " 



S. Gates, 



C. M. Loriug, 



A. W. Latham, " 



John S. Harris, La Crescent. 



Chas. P. Cook, Garden City. 



Peter M. Gideon, Excelsioi-. 



P. A. Jewell, Rochester, 



Mrs. C. A. Jewell, Rochester. 



E. B. Jordon. 



A. W. McKiuistry, Faribault. 



W. W. Wheeler, 



J. W. Harkness. " 



M. S. Abbot, Medford, Steele Co. 



Geo. C. Chamberlain, Waterford. 



H. H. Lowater, Goodhue. 



Chas. Snyder, St. Peter. 



S. Bates, Stockton. 



Ditus Day, Farmington. 



T.hos. Moulton, St. Anthony. 



A. Stewart, Richfield. 



Chas. H. Clark, •' 



Amherst Willoughby, Rich Valley. 



A. C. Hamilton, Winona. 



J. B. Samis 



n. Lindsay, *' 



J. S. Shearman, Rockford, 111. 



Chas. Andrews, Marengo, " 



S. Hunt. Hudson, Wisconsin. 



The President, A. W. McKiustry, of Faribault, upon taking the chair made 

 some very happy remarks congratulating the Association upon its prosperity, 

 and upon the increasing indications of success in Fruit Growing in Minnesota. 



Col. D. A. Robertson, of St. Paul, addressed the meeting at some length 

 upon the cultivation of fruits iu high latitudes. His remarks were fidl of in- 

 terest to the Association, abounding as they did in facts uecessar}^ to the suc- 

 cessful growing of apples in Minnesota. A copy of the address was requested 

 for publication. 



Mr. J. W. Harkness, of Faribault, Corresponding Secretary, made a report 

 embodying the experience of quite a number of successful fruit growers in 

 the State, in reference to varieties, soil, culture and shelter, &c. The prin- 

 ciple points brought out iu the report were, First — Hardy kinds, recom- 



