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show their relationship to the Wealthy, Perry Russet, Duchess, 

 etc., with which the flowers of the Malinda tree from which the 

 seeds were taken were crossed. As to the character of the fruit 

 borne on these trees, there must be and, of course, is a great range 

 in quality, size and color, etc. 



Several exhibits of this fruit have been made at our state fair 

 and the winter meeting of this society. A most attractive one 

 was made two years ago this fall at the biennial meeting of the 

 American Pomological Society, held in Boston, and one almost as 

 good was made at St. Louis last fall. Probably a similar exhibi- 

 tion will be made at the coming Minnesota state fair. 



Mr. Perkins brought up from his cellar two varieties of these 

 seedling apples that on that day, July 6th, were still keeping in 

 fairly good condition. It is not too much to expect that some of 

 these varieties will prove to be of sufficient value for propagation 

 and general planting throughout the northwest. 



Is not the success of this seedling orchard and other similar or- 

 chards that have been often referred to in our proceedings a suffi- 

 cient encouragement to induce the planting of apple seeds extensive- 

 ly throughout our state in the hope of producing similar valuable 

 seedling varieties? While every planter does not want to devote 

 so much ground to this work as Mr. Perkins has, yet there are 

 very few who could not spare room for a dozen seedling trees, and 

 there is no one who could not find pleasure in nursing their early 

 growth and watching their development. 



The evening hour found us back again at Red Wing, and a 

 short ride returned us to our homes in Minneapolis much richer 

 for this brief but pleasant experience. 



Raising Hollyhocks. — July planting is an up-to-dateway of growing the 

 old fashioned flower. — Any one can easily laise a stock of hollyhocks by sow- 

 ing the seeds as soon as possible after they are ripe, says The Garden Mag- 

 azine. It is important to gather them as early as possible, because if left on 

 the plants there is danger of loss from rotting as a result of the late summer 

 rains. The old-fashioned way of raising hollyhocks was by cuttings, and if 

 one wishes to be sure of increasing a given variety that is the only way. I 

 found that they would produce themselves so neaily true from seed as to 

 render the tedious cutting method quite unnecessary. Sow seeds in July in a 

 drill hole one inch deep in a sunny, rich soil, leaving plenty of space between 

 the seeds to allow the young plant to grow without crowding until the next 

 spring. 



