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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



to postmasters enclosing the list of questions and envelope with 

 stamp, and asked them if they had a county society to hand the 

 enclosed to the secretary; if not, I asked them to answer the ques- 

 tions if they could or to hand the list to some one who would answer 

 them. 



The postmaster at Aitkin handed the list to Chas. N. Howe, 

 president of the Aitkin Agricultural Society. I received a letter 

 from him saying that fruit trees set in the spring before were hurt 



R. H. Pendergast, Duluth. One of Minnesota's veteran horticulturists. 



more than those that had been set longer, though some trees that 

 had been set ten years were injured some, with mercury down to 

 52° below zero. Peerless, Duchess, Brad's No. 2, Itasca and Patten's 

 Greening came through all right; Okabena, Wealthy and North- 

 western Greening killed back very bad ; crab apples, Virginia, Whit- 

 ney No. 20, Strawberry and Header's Red Winter, O. K. Other 

 varieties suffered some. All plums did well. The Aitkin, a native 

 here, bore very heavily this season. No cherries of any account here. 

 Raspberries: The Cuthbert is l;ardy and the bushes were well 

 loaded with fine fruit. Strawberries: The Bederwood and 



