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it will surely be to the interest of every Minnesotan to plant nothing 

 but home grown nursery stock. 



Another fact should be taken into consideration, the home 

 nurseryman is interested in giving you trees that will grow and 

 bear fruit, for he expects to not only sell to you again but to sell 

 to your neighbors and friends if your trees give satisfaction. He 

 will undoubtedly give you the best, for if your trees do well his 

 sales will be increased. He is also willing at all times t'o give you 

 instruction in planting, pruning and caring for your stock, and if 

 he were consulted oftener many of the high priced novelties would 

 not be purchased. Trees from the home nurseries are more apt 

 t'o be fresher and the roots moist than those from a distant nursery. 

 and if a mistake occurs, as mistakes sometimes will, you can go 

 and get it rectified. If you buy of your home nursery, your money 

 is in the community and still helps you to bear the common burden 

 of taxation. 



The Chairman : You have heard Mr. Taylor's paper in which 

 he point's out the advantage of planting home grown nursery 

 stock. He has covered the points well, but if there are any other 

 points he has omitted which any one desires to suggest we would 

 be glad to hear them. This reminds me of a minister who wanted 

 to get some apple trees and wrote me about buying them at 

 Rochester. N. Y. I told him I thought he had better not buy his 

 stock at Rochester, and he sent that letter to Green, of Rochester. 

 I know Green very well, and he sent that letter right back to me 

 and asked me what kind of business that was. T was up against 

 it. I wrote him like this : I told him that man lived in a section 

 where the climate is very severe and what he needs is the hardiest 

 kind of varieties, and named Hibernal, Charlamoff, Patten's Green- 

 ing and some that' I was very sure he did not have, and T tried to 

 make it plain to him that anything else would not stand. There 

 are good reasons for this, and it seems to me they ought t'o be 

 brought out here, and now is a good time to do it. 



Mr. Chas. B. Qark : Would it be wise for people in North 

 Dakota t'o buy their stock in Minnesota or would it be better to 

 buy it from our friend in Manitoba? (Great laughter and ap- 

 plause.) 



The Chairman: I think we ought to call on Mr. Scott at this 

 point. 



Mr. Wm. G. Scot't (Manitoba) : I am not in the nursery bus- 

 iness at the present time. Soine three years ago I saw some 

 beautiful apple trees at Portage la Prairie that were brought from 

 Rochester, N. Y. They were protected on the south by a high 

 board fence, but they were beauties. Mr. Buzzell tells me that over 

 in Manitoba there are trees that were imported from the east for 

 the purpose of grafting on nursery stock. We hope to send some 

 of our stock to Minnesota and Norfh Dakota. 



Mr, W. L. Taylor: I live in Meeker county, and there were 



