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not touch the trees. The trees should be far enough apart so 

 they can grow till they produce fruit, when the least desirable 

 can be removed, set out somewhere else and grafted to choice varie- 

 ties. 



The holes where the seed are planted should be gradually filled 

 till level with the outside ground, so that when your trees are eight 

 years old you have trees with their crowns eight inches deep banked 

 by earth to keep them from being swayed by the wind or leaned 

 over by the weight of their fruit. 



Not many years ago when a person spoke of a seedling apple 

 the hearers at once thought of as poor a specimen of the fruit as 

 they ever tasted, thinking the speaker was referring to one of that 

 sort ; but now this is all changed, so the name seedling is not the 

 synonym of the least desirable of the great variety of choice apples 

 but rather of the best and choicest. The name of the person who 

 originates a choice seedling apple will go into history with itr 

 spread of popularity. Many choice varieties of seedling apples have 

 been produced for the purpose of getting a variety that would thrive 

 in a certain locality, and with the generous award offered by our 

 state horticultural society a new incentive and influence has been 

 given for the production of choice seedling apples. So it is not un- 

 safe to expect a greater number to appear in the near future. 



Just imagine the wave for seedling apples set in motion by 

 Minnesota's show of seedling apples at Boston and now again at 

 St. Louis. Many of the choice varieties have been produced by 

 chance, as it were, without care or forethought, the apples eaten 

 and the refuse with the seeds thrown away by the roadside or in 

 the kitchen yard, where the seeds have sprouted and the young trees 

 were compelled to take their chances with the grass, weeds and other 

 cumberers of the soil till they showed fruit worthy of care and 

 cultivation. " 



With these facts to aid us and invite to the care and culture of 

 seedling apples, the day is not far distant when every locality will 

 have its supply of apples. Let us all try for the prize. 



Profitable Plum Trees.— Mr. Eric Anderson, of Lake Park, Minn., 

 who is talcing a large interest in growing improved varieties of the native plum, 

 in speaking of the success of his plum crop last year says, "My four-year Sur- 

 prise plums netted $3 00 per tree; and five-year Wyants also $3.00 per tree; 

 Forest Gaiden, $2. .50; Surprise, Admiral Dewey and Beatty are the finest 

 varifties for cooking of all I have." 



