144 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Apples: Duchess, Charlamoff, Wealthy, Patten's Greening and 

 Hibernal. 



Crabs : Virginia, Whitney, Florence, Early Strawberry and 

 Genl. Grant. 



Plums: DeSoto, Forest Garden, Surprise, Wolf and Stoddard. 



Cherries : Homer, Early Richmond, Wragg, Ostheim, Compass. 



Currants : North Star, Long Bunch Holland and Red Dutch. 



Gooseberries : Red Jacket and Houghton. 



Straivberries: Dunlap, Splendid, Bederwood, Enhance and 

 Lovett. 



Blackberries : Ancient Briton and Stone's Hardy. 



Raspberries: Loudon, Cuthbert, Turner and Columbia. 



Hardy perennial flowers: Peonies, phlox, larkspur, golden glow, 

 gaillardia, pyrethrum and German iris. 



Ornamental shrubs : Lilac, snowball, hydrangea gr. fl. pan., bar- 

 berry, mock orange, spirea Van Houttii, and weigelia. 



For a complete list of perennial flowers and ornamental shrubs 

 that may be planted I refer to Bulletin No. 96 by Prof. S. B. Green 

 of the Minn. Experiment Station. 



I am pleased to say that the scarcity of fruit raised this year 

 is only an exception and not the rule. Bountiful crops have been 

 gathered in the preceding years and will doubtless be again in the 

 coming. Horticulture has its ups and downs like any other occupa- 

 tion in life. No one need therefore be discouraged, but each one 

 should rather utilize the lessons he has learned from past failures 

 in order to guard against them in the future, since we not only learn 

 a good lesson from successful results but a better one many a time 

 from disappointments. The experience of this year seems to indi- 

 cate particularly the necessity of protecting all and especially the 

 small fruits against the rigorous and adverse conditions of our win- 

 ters. It seems to teach us secondly the lesson of protecting our 

 growing crop by judicious spraying, or other preventives, against 

 the depredations of obnoxious insects. 



Fijwlly it shows us very positively the necessity of originating 

 hardier varieties of fruits than we have at present, which can stand 

 the climatic conditions of this and neighboring states. Much has 

 already been accomplished, and what has been and is being done for 

 the apple should naturally be done also for the smaller fruits. The 

 wild types we find indigenous to the state should be taken for hard- 

 iness, and the best cultivated varieties to impart quality and size to 

 the new originations. Since we consider this last point relative to 

 the originating of a hardier kind of fruit plants than we have at 

 present of paramount importance, I am hopeful that all will realize 

 this fully, and that many in the near future may have interesting 

 facts to present to this society, and in doing this they will find 



