132 HISTOIIY OK HOUTICULTL'RE IN M1NN^:S0TA. 



Vale"sNo. 3, R. I. Greening, Blue Pearmain, Red Gillyflower. King of Minnesota, Drap de 

 Ore, Sweet Cider. Minkler, Haas, Grime's Golden, Smith's Cider, (thirty-six varieties), 

 making in all fifty-four varieties I have in cultivation, of whicli thirty-six varieties have 

 borne fruit. 



Pears (, eight varieties: six have fruited.)— Buftum, Beurra Gifl'ard, Beurra Easter, Belle 

 Lucrative, Flemish Beauty, Lucy Ford, Jersey, Duchess de Angelo, Glouth Moncau. 



Grapes (eight varieties,)— Concord, Clinton, Delaware. Hartford. Isabella, Northern Mus- 

 cadine, Taylor, White King. 



Plums- two varieties, names not known. 



Cherries— two varieties, names not known: bore fruit for 10 years. 



I have several varieties of apples, names unknoAvn. I fruited about twenty-five varieties 

 of seedlings, none of which are as good as the Early Harvest, Red Astrachan, Duchess, Fall 

 Stripe, Snow Apple, Yellow Bellflower, Jonathan. Yours, 



John Habt. 



Mr. Stewart, of Richfield, next made a brief report. He had sandy soil, 

 aud on a prairie at that. He commenced in the Spring of 1855, in Le Sueur 

 county, witli 100 varieties. He did Avell until 1858, when his trees were 

 mostly killed. He next moved to the vicinity of Minneapolis, and put out 

 15,000 grafts, and the next year all were killed but a few. He believed that 

 the common apple would do. We needed hardier stock, and seedlings at that. 

 He had since done well, had fine Duchess of (Udenburgs and several varieties 

 of the crab. 



Mr. Faist suggested that, as the hall was hard to speak in. he hoped all 

 would speak as loudly as possible. 



Col. Stevens said that as there were not many present, the reports for the 

 afternoon should be conversational as far as possible ; indeed, that the w^hole 

 meeting should be " free and easy" in character. He would like to hear, in 

 that spirit, from everybody present, and especially from visitors to the Society, 

 from abroad. 



]\lr. Ford thought that as it woidd he mostly repeated to-morrow would it 

 not be better to have the fruits on exhibition itemized for the press to-morrow 

 morning, something, he suggested, as more profitable than mere talk. 



Col. Stevens said that not many were here now, on account of the snow 

 blockades on the railroads, and therefore there should be nothing done which 

 would cut them oft" from the debate which would be very full to-morrow. 



Judge Baker did itot see the necessity of any regular report at all. We 

 were here to confer together. There would be 200 here to-morrow, and if 

 some of the members of the Legislature were here, who were engaged in 

 fruit culture, even if there were such as had raised but a single apple, it 

 would benefit all to hear from them. He desired Mr. Fuller, of Olmsted 

 countj^, whom he saw present, to respond to the desire for information. 



Mr. Fuller said that most of the people of his county were wheat growers, 

 but that latterly they were paying some attention to fruit growing. He him- 

 self was originally from New York, and had gone into crab apple culture 

 somewhat, and had on 80 or 90 trees some 12 bushels. His experience had 

 been on level ground, protected on all sides by a growth of willows. 



Mr. Smith desired to call the attention of the Society to the postal law, 

 which he suggested bore hard upon those who wished to send a few scions 

 through the mail. He said there ought to be concerted action to get the old 

 postal law, which was more liberal, back again. 



