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tinued to be as long as our stay in the northwest lasted, we visited 

 many of the parks and public buildings of Winnipeg and took a 

 bird's eye view of the city from the roof-garden of the Free Press. 

 The early afternoon hour found us on our way south, reluctant to 

 leave this beautiful and interesting region. Grain fields on every 

 hand just turning to brown under the August sun, the busy reapers 

 here and there beginning to garner the harvest, and with all, a 

 clear sky and the richest of air, made our ride up the valley to 

 Crookston one long dream. At Crookston we changed cars and 

 took a sleeper to Minneapolis, which brought this most pleasant trip 

 to a close. 



A Manitoba plum tree in blossom, — taken by S. R. Mighton. 



What have we brought back from there of special interest and 

 value to the horticulturist of Minnesota? There are two things 

 that present themselves to my thought, from which we may draw 

 lessons of special value. The one is the certain assurance that in 

 the Pyrus baccata we have a stock upon which to work trees for 

 Minnesota orchards that is entirely hardy, no instance of its hav- 

 ing winter-killed in Manitoba having come to our notice, and the 

 top-working there, of which we saw considerable, all seemed to 

 show good points of union and gave promise of endurance. The 



