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three Northwestern Greening, two Iowa Beauty, two Longfield, one 

 Brett, one McMahon, one Baxter, one Wolf River, one Mahnda and 

 one University. As those named included all the varieties exhib- 

 ited by those twelve producers, they may be taken as a criterion as to 

 the varieties planted and produced in the county. 



I beg your indulgence in allowing me to give in this report some 

 of my forty-seven years' experience in trying to produce apples in 



Wealthy_apple tree four years planted. On place of A. H. Reed, Glencoe. 



Minnesota, with many disappointments, and, in fact, continual dis- 

 appointment until I joined the Minnesota Horticultural Society and 

 learned to select trees upon hardy roots grown in Minnesota nurs- 

 eries, and to set them out and to care for them intelligently. For 

 the first time this season my expectation has been realized by seeing 

 sixty out of two hundred trees planted in the spring of 1900 bear 

 large, handsome apples. 



In the spring of 1857 I obtained a thousand root-grafts from 

 Rochester, New York, and set them on my pre-emption claim near 



