398 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



List of Awards at Minnesota State Fair. — This list as published in 

 this number is slightly incomplete in several particulars, but at the time of 

 going to press the necessary information to complete it had not reached the 

 secretary, 



More about Seedless Asparagus. — As to the growing asparagus busi- 

 ness, I want to say: 



1. With me the seedless kind of plants is much the most productive and 

 profitable. 



2. Do other growers find it so ? 



3. If the seedless asparagus is the best kind to grow how can planters 

 best get all seedless plants to set out ? I suggest the division of tested and ap- 

 proved seedling roots as the quickest and surest way I know of. The only 

 other plan is to dig up seed-bearing plants and fill the vacancies with common 

 untested seedlings, which might prove to be the very same unprofitable seed- 

 bearing kind. 



4. If there was a demand for seedless plants, nurserymen would gladly 

 grow and furnish such, of course at a higher in price proportion to the increase 

 of cost and value. F. K. PhcEnix. 



Apples from the Red River Vallev. — A very nice plate of apples 

 came to this office September 1st from the place of Peter O. Vaugen, Climax, 

 Mian., consisting of Charlamoff, Wealthy Longfield, Whitney, Virginia and 

 Brier Sweet, and Cheney and Compass Cherry plums. Climax being situated 

 on the level land of the Red River Valley is in that section of the state no^ 

 hitherto thought to be adapted to fruit growing, but there are many success, 

 ful young orchards coming on in that section. Some of them have been bear- 

 ing several years in a hopeful way. 



About the Minnetonka Apple.— " In the 'Secretarys Corner" of the 

 September issue I find a question concerning the Minnetonka apple. In Yel- 

 low Medicine county, Minn., it turned out to be of no use. Byard bought 

 twelve of that kind a few years ago; the last one will die this year— stem is 

 about as thick as an ink bottle. The last tree of twelve had a little fruit, but 

 it will not ripen on account of sickness. * * * may brag him ever so much 

 as a hardy tree; I don't believe it. The two 'Greenings.' the 'Wealthy,' the 

 'Oldenburg,' and several other known sorts are the trees to plant In a few 

 years this county will raise plenty of fruit." A Reader OF THE Horticul- 

 turist, Boyd, Lac qui Parle Co. 



Errors in the September Horticulturist. — On page 322 of the 

 September Horticulturist, in the article prepared by Mrs. N. S. Sawyer, en- 

 titled 'The Flower Garden and Lawn in September and October," on the last 

 line of the page referred to, there is a ridiculous mistake which was made 

 after the final reading of the proof by the editor. In place of the line as it 

 reads, substitute the words "mellow soil in which to expand," and the reader 

 will get sense. The line as printed was intended as a correction of a similar 

 line appearing eight lines above. The only way to have detected this mistake 

 by the printer was to have re-read the whole proof, A proof is ordinarily 

 read twice, and it is only in some exceptionally rare case like this that further 

 reading is necessary. On page 324 the reporter's notes should be changed to 

 read as follows: In the 16th line from the bottom of the page, in place of 

 the word "Soil" substitute the word "sand." In the 12th line from the 

 bottom, instead of the word "straw" substitute the word "boxes." 



