148 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



though they were well protected. Northwestern Greening apples 

 seem to have winter-killed more than the others. 



Fruit is going into winter in fine condition. Sufficient moisture 

 in the ground and all trees and shrubs are in good condition. 



The following list of fruits and berries are now considered as 

 doing best in this locality. 



Apples : Duchess, Wealthy, Patten's Greening, Hibernal, Whit- 

 ney, Early Strawberry. 



Plums: DeSoto, Wolf, Wyant. Surprise, Compass, Cheney. 



Currants: North Star, Victoria, Red Dutch, White Grape. 



Gooseberries : Downing. 



Raspberries: Loudon, Turner, Kansas, Older. 



Strawberries: Dunlap, Bederwood, Warfield, Splendid and 

 Clyde. 



Perennial Hozvcrs: Phlox, peonies, bleeding heart, golden glow. 



Ornamental shrubs: Snowball, lilac, spirea \'an Houttii, hy- 

 drangea P. G., syringa, honeysuckle. 



The territory has been overrun with eastern stock, which is 

 poor, but Minnesota stock is doing very well. 



Tivo Minute Talk. 



Mr. H. G. Westman (8th Dist.) : I am somewhat handicapped 

 in making this report because of the fact that I was away from 

 home most of the summer. At the meeting last winter I listened 

 to what some of the wise fellows had to say on strawberries. I 

 made up my mind that I had not been doing the right thing, so I 

 plowed under my strawberries, about three acres. They did not 

 look well. They looked rusty, they winter-killed and did not have a 

 good appearance. There are some stumps in the field and a few 

 plants escaped and from those I got about a hundred quarts of 

 iDerries. I thought perhaps I might have done better if I had left 

 them, but I concluded I would set out more and take care of them 

 by up-to-date methods. The northern end of the district, the lake 

 region, is the best suited for fruit. It seems the soil is heavier 

 up there, and all the reports we have from the sandy sections of 

 Isanti, Mille Lacs and Kanabec counties were not very encouraging 

 — the strawberry winter-killed, even where well protected. There 

 are not many apple trees planted. The Northwestern Greening 

 is subject to winter-killing. .My own experience and observation is 

 that the Northwestern Greening grows very nicely. Not one of 

 my trees killed back. I have three hundred trees, and not a single 

 one killed back. I have a report from same section which says the 

 country is absolutely no good for apples. There may be something 

 wrong in the matter of roots, but you old fellows know more about 

 that than we young fellows. 



Mr. Brackett : " Have you any wild strawberries that are profit- 

 able to grow in the garden ? 



Mr. Westman : We have a wild strawberrv that grows an 



