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Mr. F. B. r^IcLeran, W'renshall station. (See index. Dis- 

 cussion. 



The Qiairman : We have a little more time on our program 

 than we expected to have if you wish to have any further discus- 

 sion. If not we will take up the reports of local societies. I will 

 first call on the Southern Minnesota society. 



Mr. A. W. Massee, of Albert Lea, the president, submitted a 

 report in behalf of the Southern [Minnesota Horticultural Society. 

 (See index.) 



Mr. Massee : Our society has thirty-three members, and we 

 hold our meeting in January. 



The Chairman : We will next have the report of the Willmar 

 Horticultural Society if there is any one here to represent it. 



John Wicklund : I will not take up much time, but I will only state 

 that our society was organized last year, and we are greatly in hopes 

 that it will be a success in the future. We are trying to improve both 

 in fruit and in the growing of shrubbery. The report I made is 

 left with the secretary and will be published, so I will say nothing 

 about that part of it. My own observation is that fruit of various 

 kinds, and apples such as the Wealthy, Duchess and Hibernal, and 

 also the Okabena, did very well. Some of the crabs were quite 

 badly affected with scab. Plums were not a good crop this year 

 according to my observation. The plum rot seems to have affected 

 plums to quite a considerable extent. I cannot explain what the 

 cause is, but I would like to know what the remedy might be. As 

 far as other fruits, such as gooseberries, currants and raspberries 

 are concerned, as a rule they did very well. I am trying an experi- 

 ment with grafts from Sweden, and I have written Secretary La- 

 tham in regard to that. I had eight different kinds of grafts last 

 spring, and three of them bore fruit this past summer, being top- 

 grafted on the Hibernal. So I have specimens of three different 

 kinds of that Swedish apple, but what they are going to do in 

 the future I am not ready to say. The trees that bore fruit this 

 summer produced summer apples, but I have what they claim to be 

 in the old country a winter apple, and I hope to be able to report 

 on the winter varieties later. I understand that what we want is a 

 winter apple instead of a summer apple, of which we have plenty 

 now. 



Mr. W. L. Taylor : I had the opportunitv of attending the 

 Willmar street fair. They had one booth devoted to horticulture, 

 and the horticultural society was well represented. They were 

 giving away those little fruit lists and were doing an immense 

 amount of good. I am sorry ]\Ir. \\'icklund was too modest to 

 speak about that. 



The Chairman : We come now to a subject that will interest 

 every apple grower, the subject of blight in the apple orchard. 

 There are two papers to be read on this subject, and we will have 

 both of them read and have the discussion follow. IMr. Dewain 

 Cook has the first paper on the subject. 



