54 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Grapes: Beta, Moore's Early, Worden, Janesville, Concord, 

 Agawam, Delaware. 



Raspberries : Red : Turner, Marlboro, King, Cuthbert. lilack or 

 purple : Columbia, Gregg". 



Blackberries : Snyder, Ancient Briton. 



Currants: Long Bunch Holland, Victoria, White Grape, Red 

 Dutch, Stewart. 



Gooseberries : Houghton, Downing. 



Strazvberries: Perfect, Senator Dunlap, Splendid, Lovett, 

 Clyde, Bederwood, Johnson's Early, Imperfect, Warfield, Sample, 

 Crescent, Haverland. 



Perennial Flowers: Peony, golden glow, larkspur, tiger lily, 

 daisy, phlox, tulips, iris, sweet william. 



Bearing apple trees, at Andrew Wilfert's place, Clevelanri. 



Hardy ornamental shrubs: Hydrangea, snowball, high bush 

 cranberry. Van Houttii and Bridal Wreath spireas, ash-leaf spirea, 

 flowering currant. Garland syringa, flowering almond. 



Never before in this locality at this time of year has the outlook 

 for a good crop been more promising than at the present time. 

 Apple and plum trees are well covered with fruit buds, and all 

 the new wood well hardened up, with plenty of moisture in the 

 ground to carry them through the winter without root-killing. All 

 canes of raspberries are well ripened and wooded, on account of the 

 frost holding off so late in the fall, and the strawberries made a good 

 growth, and there has been plenty of rain, so that runners are well 

 rooted, and I never saw them looking any better in the fall. 



One of the strangest things that has come to my mind while 



