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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



Of the first seedlings grown by me thirty years ago, a few only 

 would endure the winters, but by selecting seed of the first and* 

 second generation nearly fifty per cent of the seedlings are as hardy 

 as three to five per cent of the first seedlings grown. 



To say that you can not breed hardiness is to deny the well- 

 known laws of heredity. It is like saying that the white-faced 

 markings and horns of the Hereford cattle do not exist, and that 

 fleetness and endurance have not been bred into the horse. 



Repka Malenka and OoUins cross, four year old trees. Notice the remarkable size 



of these four year old trees from the little mother Malenka, six trees out of 



nine being fully three times as large as the mother tree at that age. 



Mr. Patten is standing between the sixth and seventh trees. 



How happens it that the Turner raspberry is so much more hardy 

 than the varieties that have preceded it if we can not obtain increased 

 hardiness by selection? 



Does any well-informed horticulturists believe that if he grew 

 a thousand uncrossed seedlings from the Oldenburg that there would 

 not be a great variation in thera in point of hardiness ? Or that the 

 general average of hardiness, and even individual hardiness, would 

 not be increased if seeds were planted from the most perfect speci- 

 mens, in every particular growth, of leaf, of maturity, of free- 

 dom from rust and blight, and every other imperfection ? 



