94 ANNUAL EEPORT 



yrxDWERS. 



Greenhouse Plants, J. A. Salzer, La Crosse 1st 20" 



jMrs. B. Welch, Rochester 2d 16 



Mrs. Nesbit, " 3(1 10 



Greenhouse Plants by Amateur, Mrs. J. S. Fishbeck Rochester Ist 15 



Mrs. A. H. Markham, •' 2d 10 



Mrs. Breckinridge, " 3rd 5 



Best display of Geraniums, Mrs. R. Welch, " Ist 5 



H.C.Butler. •• 2d 4 



J. A. Salzer, La Crosse 3rd ? 



Roses in Pots, J. A. Salzer, " 1st 6 



Single specimen Plant, J. A. Salzer, " 1st 3 



Basket cut Flowers, J. A Salzer, La Crosse 1st 3- 



Best display climbing vines, ■■ '• 1st 5 



Gladiolus, •• " Ist 3 



Tube Roses, " " 1st 3 



Floral design, ' " let 5 



Cactus, " ^- let 5- 



Mrs. M. J. Hoag, Rochester 2d 3 



Verbauas, Mrs. S. B. Welch, " 1st 2 



Mrs. J. S. Fishbeck, " 2d 1 



Pansies, Mrs. S. B. Welch, " 1st 3- 



J. A. Salzer, La Crosse 2d ^ 



The flower department contained representatives of nearly everything that is cultivated in the green- 

 house and conservatory, and proved to be one of the most interesting features of the fair. Time will 

 not permit me to make a full report of the vegetable department. I will only say that it was full and 

 complete, and a credit to our Siate. The great number of the newer varieties of vegetables shown, tell 

 us that our gardeners and farmers are wide awade and progressive. I have neglected to mention that 

 there were two large and well arranged horticultural exhibits in the railroad department ; one by the 

 Winona & St. Peter, under the direction of H. M. Burchard, and C. A. Wliitney, assisted by Martin 

 Cook, of Rochester, and the other by the St. P. & Manitoba railroad, under the supervision of A. M. 

 Fi'idley. The first showed about 300 plates of apples and Siberians grown along the line of the road^ 

 and an endless variety of vegetables. The other contained less fruit, but a number of varieties of veg- 

 etables that were marvelous for their size and perfection. Ours is indeed a wonderful State for veget- 

 ables. Considerable difficulty is experienced in securing competent committees, and I think it would be 

 well to have the committee on fruits appointed at the winter meetings of the Horticultural Society and 

 to provide for their expenses. Some dissatisfaction is manifested because our Minnesota fruit growers 

 are brought into competition with those of other States. Can this Society suggest any remedy while 

 competition in the State Fair is left open to the world .' The State Agricultural Society will no longer 

 duplicate like premiums to exhibitors from other States. 



A vote of thanks was tendered President Harris, who, as a member 

 of the State Board of Agriculture, furthered our interests at the State 

 Fair. 



WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 18. 



HARDY APPLES FROM SEED. 



BY A. K. PHOENIX, DELAVAN, WIS. 



What are, to-day most Western farmers rights as to fruit trees and fruits? (1.) To go without, 

 C2.) once or twice each year to buy costly, often worthless imported trees and costly imported fruit. 

 Yet they struggle bravely on in the same old road, annually taxing themselves in the aggregate, im- 

 mense sums, vainly hoping that something better may turn up. What is comparatively the Western 

 honicullural situaiion? Certainly deprtssuU. To iliudrate. In 18:50 wus a wuuderlal fruit crop, said 

 to be the largest ever grown West, and with what result? At least at this section aside from what the 

 owner's family and stock consumed, most of the beautiful apples, thousands of bushels rotted on the 



