I02 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The display of apple seedlings at the state fair this year was 

 one of the most interesting exhibits ever made by our members 

 and was a great attraction to the people visiting horticultural 

 hall ; it was larger than the display made at any one time at the 

 World's Fair in St. Louis. 



The fine exhibition of seedling apples and plums each year 

 is furnishing a splendid object lesson of what is being accom- 

 plished by the fruit growers of our state in producing varieties 

 suitable to our environment. The planting of fruit seed is be- 

 coming almost epidemic and will help develop the fruit industry 

 as no other effort can. 



Our secretary recently said "Every one possessing sufficient 

 ground should save all seed possible, from good apples, and see 

 it planted and well cared for." 



The exhibition of choice plum seedlings, at the state fair, was 

 very good, showing conclusively that the interest in this depart- 

 ment is, each year, increasing. Some were exceedingly fine 

 for size and quality. Dewain Cook's new seedling from the cling 

 Wolf plum is a remarkably promising variety; it is one and one- 

 half inches in diameter and took first premium. Mr. R. H. L. 

 Jewett showed samples of several new seedlings, possessing 

 many points of real merit. All over our state many new seed- 

 lings are produced each year that add value to our long list of 

 choice cultivated varieties. 



The Aitkin plum, grown by H. G. McBride, Annandale, 

 Minn., was the largest on exhibition at the state fair, its diameter 

 being one and eleven-sixteenths inches. 



New Seedling Apples — Nils Anderson, Lake City, has a very 

 prolific seedling, of good size ; although top-worked with North- 

 western Greening it bore three bushels of fruit this year. 



I called on W. C. Northrup, Red Wing, who has several 

 plantings of seedling apples not yet in bearing, also a number 

 of new seedling plums. He has spent ten years experimenting in 

 top-grafting the Wealthy, Peter, Patten's Greening and Malinda, 

 using Virginia and Hibernal for stocks, and considers the latter 

 the best, as they do not blight as badly and are more productive. 

 In future he will use Hibernal entirely. 



A. L. Goldenstein, Lake Crystal, Minn., has a seedling apple 

 that was put in cold storage the fall of 1903, taken out the fol- 

 lowing July and exhibited at St. Louis. The assistant superin- 

 tendent wrote it was the finest seedling among the Minnesota 

 apples, and it was awarded a silver medal. 



