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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



has been the almost undisputed opinion, both at home and abroad, 

 that we are "too near the north pole" up here to grow anything 

 except rutabagas and pine stumps. You will also bear in. mind 

 that this is a newly settled country, one from which the lumlbermen 

 have hardly passed. The few pioneers, who, with fhe love for a 

 home garden and a little home grown fruit, have had the courage to 

 purchase a few trees and small fruits have almost invariably had 

 their slight hopes of success shattered by the cunning, the dis- 

 honesty and the imposition of a band of smooth tongued highway- 

 men, commonly known to us as dishonest tree peddlers. I do not 



M r. Kroschell and bearing W ealthy tree, four yea rs set, at Hinckley. 



know how it may be in other parts of the state, but I do know 

 that in our own section these "tree peddlers" have done 

 worlds of shameful damage to horticultural interests that it 

 will take years of persistent effort and example of honest horti- 

 culturists to eliminate. Perhaps you think I am a little harsh or 

 that I have some personal grievance against this particular branch 

 of mlankind. Be that as it may, I have not been taken in myself, 

 as I have purchased all my stock direct from well reputed nursery- 

 men who are members of this society. What I say is what I know 

 to be absolute truth, and a condition against which, in my opinion, 



