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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



APPLE SEEDLINGS. 



D. F. AKIN, FARMINGTON. 



In treating on the subject of seedlings, the thoughtful student 

 of nature finds it so vast and extensive, so important and interest- 

 ing, so varied and necessary, so universal and grand, that he either 

 divides it into different heads, as fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, 

 shrubs and forests, or leaves it to one more devoted to each. How- 

 ever interesting it may be to produce a new and more beautiful 



Mr. D. F. Akin. 



rose, petunia, phlox or any other ornamental shrub, plant or vine, 

 which can be accomplished only by raising them from the seed, it 

 is far more interesting to the writer of this to produce some new and 

 more valuable variety of the apple, which is the most universally 

 eaten fruit known, and has now many choice varieties. A Ger- 

 man gentleman told one of our horticulturists at the St. Louis fair 

 that in his country apples often sold for fifty cents apiece. No 

 other fruit of its size can compare with it in price, no other fruit 



