78 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Some of the business men in Duluth did set out apples, plums 

 and cherries in their gardens, and they are mostly fine, healthy trees, 

 and they have been furnishing fruit for thirty years. They stand 

 as guide posts for the new settlers, showing them that they can 

 have fruit, and they are now setting out more trees. 



As I have said before, I consider the northern part of the state 

 is well adapted to raising such varieties of fruit as will grow in 

 the state. It is mostly a timber country. We have usually plenty 

 of snow to protect the trees and keep the ground from freezing 

 hard. We have moisture, and owing to the cool summers we have 

 very little trouble from blight. Transcendent crabs set out when 

 Duluth was first settled are fine, healthy trees. Fruit matures slowly 



Duluth Strawberries on fruit place of A. McComber, Duluth. 



and is of fine flavor. This is very noticeable with small fruits, and 

 the later ripening will give gardeners a great advantage, as their 

 berries will not be ready for the market till after the season is 

 over below, and they will get better prices. And the snow makes 

 a fine covering for tlie strawberry plant. 



In conclusion, I wish to refer to last winter and the effect it 

 had on fruit trees at Duluth, and also at Bayfield, on the South 

 Shore. We had a long, cold winter. But we have had several 

 when the cold spell lasted as long, and it was colder. But last 

 winter injured trees that were not hurt in those years. Cherry 

 trees that were set out in Duluth in the early days went through 

 those years all right, while the same varieties of fruit were killed 

 last winter. And at Bayfield, where they have raised cherries for 

 fifty years or more, bearing trees were killed last winter. 



