8 HISTORY OF HORTICULTURK JX MINNESOTA. 



been wantiii;:? on the part of those who remeinbered with yearuiui; interest 

 the fruits and flowers of their okl homes, efforts to reproduce them here, 

 and perhaps there is no more authentic source whence to And evidence of 

 this, than the Farmer & Gardner, before alhided to. We And, further then, 

 by reference to its pages, that besides those we have noticed that Truman 

 M. Smith, the present efficient President of the State Horticultural Society, 

 had as early as 1860, an acre of ground devoted to, amongst other things, 

 " grapes," in which of late he has been so remarkably successful, along with 

 '•currants, gooseberries, stra^vberries," &c., there not being weeds enough 

 on the whole place, the editor remarks — " to All a half bushel." About the 

 same time, Dr. Ames comes in for earnest laudation for his " flne green- 

 house;" and Dr. C. W. Borup, for his extensive '-grapery." "Black 

 Hamburg," " Black Prince," " Golden Chasselas," and " White Erontignan," 

 are noted as amongst those under culture. Mr. Ford calls this the Pioneer 

 Grapery of St. Paul,' and remarks that on a then recent visit to Chicago, 

 he saw nothing there to compare to it. In the same immber of his paper 

 he commends highly the success of Mr. A. D. Foster, of St. Anthony, in 

 raising grapes, his crop summing up " seven hundred and eighty-nine bunches, 

 many of which weighed one pound and a half." 



Again at the Horticultural Fair held in St. Paul, on the 4th of July, 1860, 

 Dr. Jarvis is commended for line varieties of "strawberries;" Mrs. H. L. 

 Moss, for a "tastefully arranged dish of extraordinarily fine raspberries, 

 Brinkle's Orange, Black Caps and Red Antwerps"; Trnman M. Smith for 

 "Black Naples and Red Dutch Currants," and others for rich and beautiful 

 collections of rare plants and flowers. Mr. D. C. Greenleaf 's taste and 

 energy in flower culture is also noted about the same time with warm 

 commendation on the part of the Farmer & Gardner. The same publication 

 for September, 1861, notices "very flne apples growing on trees that have 

 Ijorne for several years," in the grounds of Dr. S. H. Chute of St. Anthony. 

 They are described as " grafted sorts," set out originally by Hon. J. W. North, 

 who had moved to Nevada, and they were " protected on the sunny side, by 

 two boards, the edges of which were nailed together." 



For what was doing in fruit culture, about this time, we nmst continue to 

 draw upon the valuable record alreadj^ so freely quoted. In September, the 

 same year — 1861 — the editor paid a visit to various fruit growing establish- 

 ments around St. Paul, and it thence appears that Messrs. Masterson, Simons, 

 Selby, Bell, Buchanan, Nourse and Marshall, were all doing well in grape 

 culture, the Rebecca, Concord, Catawba, Isabella and Clinton being the kinds 

 cultivated. In a subsequent number of the magazine, the places of Dr. 

 Steele, Genl. Dana, Messrs. Tiniman M. Smith, Livingston, Bohrer, Martin, 

 Oakes and Barton, are noticed as devoted in some extent to grape culture, 

 the fruit doing well. 



As to attempts at raising the larger fruits, and especially apples, the 

 commencement having been made nearly a score of years since, we give the 

 written experience of two gentlemen of this State, amongst the earliest in 

 the fleld, Messrs. Pond of Bloomington, and Gideon of Excelsior. 



