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the injury. We had a large supply ot fruit of all kinds that we attempt to grow- 

 All Transcendent, Hislop and Early Strawberry crabs bore abundantly. 



There was a good yield of Duchess from the few bearing trees we have, also a 

 few Minnesota, Beecher Sweet and Wealthy. 



The crop of small fruits was very full. 



G. W. Fuller 



Rochester, Minx., January 15, 1882. 

 Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the State Horticultural Society: 



Twenty-two years ago last month, I came to this State. At that time the "Wise- 

 acres" all said, it was worse than useless to attempt to raise fruit in Minnesota. 

 But rather than profit by this premature information, I chose the old motto of — 

 "Prove all things and hold fast to that which is good." I was able to comprehend, 

 even at that early day, Wmi fruit was good, and I have since proved upon several 

 sorts — proved too that with fair culture they will pay better than wheat at §1.25 

 per bushel, and although laughed to scorn many times during our early experi- 

 ment in planting trees in Olmsted county, yet we claim now that it is our turn to 

 laugh, as we fairly glutted the Rochester market the past season with the common 

 apple, and shipped quite a quantity west, and no county in the State carried away 

 so many premiums ou fruit as ours at the last State Fair. Summer and fall fruits 

 were much more abundant than winter. This mistake is mostly due to the fact, 

 that for several years during the early Iiistory of this society the great cry was for 

 fruit from Russia. This demand was supplied with summer fruit, but now the de- 

 mand should, and will be for native grown winter fruit. Will name six varieties 

 of common apple and same nuralier H\'brids that we believe yielded the best with 

 us, viz.: Duchess, Wealthy, Rollins Russet, Haas, Fameuse and Walbridge. Hy- 

 brids—Pleader's Winter, Powers Large Red, Whitney No. 20, Conical, Transcendent 

 and Orange. 



Peaks. — Pears blossomed tiucly, but for some unknown reason the fruit mostly 

 dropped before maturity. 



Plums. — No tame plums — wild, or seedlings from them in abundance and some 

 of most excellent quality. 



CHEiunES. — Would have been a fair crop had it not been for the ravages of in- 

 cct s. 



Gkai'es. — Grapes have done remarkably w^ell, especially the Janesville, which 

 appears to be rapidly growing in favor, also some of the Roger's Hybrids. The 

 Concord, Clinton, Hardy Connecticut and others yielded most abundantly. The 

 only total failure that I have observed was with the Eumelian. 



GoosEBERUiES. — Native varieties fair crop; English .sorts, complete failure. Cur_ 

 rant crop good as usual, seldom fails in our county. 



Blackberries!. — But little attempt has been made in our county a.s yet to culti- 

 vate this valuable fruit. The most successful grower as far as I know is Rev. M. 

 L. Tibbctts, of Dover. He fruited several new varieties the past season, and when 

 1 saw tl»em July 1st, were well loaded with fruit. The Stones Hardy looked very 

 promising. 



Raspberries. — The Philadelphia winter killed pretty badly last winter. The 

 Turner stood the winter good and yielded well, and is by the way the most popular 



