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MIXXESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



are enough trees, well established, healthy and bearing, to prove 

 that both our soil and climate are adapted to apple growing. In 

 fact, a few horticultural pioneers who had the enthusiasm and push 

 have successfully carried apple growing beyond the amateur stage. 

 The raising of apple seedlings has also been taken up. I myself 



Duchess tree, six years planted, on farm of Mrs. Elizabeth Ketnble, Grand Forks. N. D., 

 (in Red River Valley.) Photo taken in 1905. Two-thirds crop knocked off by hail. 



have a fine lot of two years old, of which I intend to distribute a 

 limited number next spring among local members of the society. 



In some localities apple trees were affected by blight, notably 

 the Transcendent and Hyslop crabs. The crop was good with some 

 and poor with others. 



The plum crop was apparently poor over the entire district. 



