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it is on these lines that we are mainly dependent upon the aid 

 received from the State, and that we may continue to have the 

 hearty co-operation of the State, we hope our plans and labors, as 

 indicated in this volume, may be fully examined by the Executive 

 and the Legislature, and the results already gained be well studied 

 in their bearing on the prospects of what may be done in the 

 future. 



That we can raise the summer and early fall apples like Tetofski 

 and Duchess of Oldenburg, and the grapes like the Concord, Worden 

 and Delaware, in abundance to supply all the wants of the_ State, 

 in their season, and in beauty and quality not surpassed if equalled 

 elsewhere, admits of no question; that the Wealthy, for a late fall 

 and early winter apple, will be successful, when properly under- 

 stood, and that it has no superior in beauty and scarcely any in 

 quality, is generally conceded; and now, if we can import or pro- 

 duce here late keeping ' varieties of winter apples, of equal merit 

 otherwise with the ones mentioned, the time will have come when 

 Minnesota, instead of buying her apples for home consumption, 

 can not only raise her own, but add this fruit to her staple farm 

 crops and supply the regions to the north and west now depend- 

 ent upon states east and south shipping through our territory. 

 To this end, we, as a society, are laboring with confidence in the 

 result. 



As a proof of what is being done in commercial orcharding in a 

 country where the summers are more arid than any of ours, an^ 

 the winters more severe in temperature, and with less constant 

 snow, reference is respectfully made to Prof. J. L. Budd's notes of 

 explorations made last summer and fall in the province of Sim- 

 birsk, Russia, as published in this volume, and to other facts we 

 present on the same subject. 



Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



OLIVER GIBBS, Jr., 



Seeretary. 



