102 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The small fruit industry, the year of 1899, has increased one-third over 
previous years, the Minnetonka Fruit Growers’ Association having sold 
$18,500 worth of small fruit for season of 1899, mostly raspberries of the 
Marlboro variety, and strawberries. We think the increase of small fruits 
here the coming year will be fifty acres, in an area of three miles square. 
While the Marlboro is the leading variety, we have many black varieties, 
Gregg and Nemaha principally. They did well. The Loudon is being ex- 
tensively planted. The Miller is doing well here. All varieties did well here 
that were covered. I have the following varieties on my grounds: Marl- 
boro, Loudon, Miller, Turner, Nemaha and Gregg, Shaffer’s Colossal, 
Golden Queen. All these varieties went into the winter looking healthier 
than I ever saw them before. 
Strawberries bore a heavy crop here, all beds doing well. The lead- 
ing varieties raised here are Bederwood, Crescent and Lovett. I have on 
trial Warfield, Glen Mary, Haverland and Parker Earle. Plums were a 
light crop owing to heavy rains and chilly weather in the spring while in 
bloom, causing the blossoms to drop. My seedling variety, the Eureka, had 
one-fourth crop. I have the De Soto, Hawkeye, Rockford and Cheney. 
The De Soto was affected some with black rust on the trees. The curculio 
were quite bad. I have Early Richmond, English Morello and Wragg 
cherries. The Early Richmond are doing the best with me, standing the 
winter better. 
STORY OF A MINNESOTA GARDEN. 
PROF. THOS. SHAW, SCHOOI, OF AGRICULTURE, ST. ANTHONY PARK, 
The writer came to Minnesota in the autumn of 1893, and located in St. 
Anthony Park. At the rear of the dwelling is a small piece of level ground, 
which was covered with a thin sod of grass. Permission was obtained from 
the owner to dig up the ground, with a view to turning it into a garden. 
It was therefore dug the same autumn. The digging revealed the fact 
that it was “made” land; that is to say, that the undersoil was sand and 
gravel that had been removed from the cellar, and that the top soil was 
black loam, brought in from abroad. Over much of the surface the top 
soil was only half a spade in depth, and the undersoil at that season was so 
hard that the spade would not penetrate it. The next summer, 1894, was 
unprecedentedly dry, and yet the amount of produce obtained from it was 
a surprise to the writer. This is was that prompted the idea to ascertain 
how much garden produce could be obtained from this little piece of ground 
in a normal season; hence, an accurate account of everything that was 
grown upon it was kept during the years 1895, 1896, 1897 and 1898, except 
what was considered not strictly first-class, and was, therefore, thrown away 
amid the superabundance that was produced. 
The following is a record of the produce grown during the summers 
mentioned above: 
In 1895: WGCELUICE,, sPLAINES or cterers cre. <leis ooistaioiateteete 585 
Radishes: plants (ty. Meee never serves 3,227 Summer savory, plants............ 210 
Onions, from sets, plants ........ 289 Sage, plantsizccspneescomar es meee T7 
WetICe DIANUS <r ace etiee pei see 539 Parsley, plants ............s++-+++++ 90 
Onions from seed, while thin- Peppergrass, plants ............... 56 
ippbaked stolen eh is) Mi GoooedgooDtcannndss 718 Corn used green, ears ............. 191 
Onions from seed, harvested, Cabbages) (Reads: Feces.\.cistsccctorniete 65 
PLANES eva sieseatase esol oewtaeieem es 1,419 Gauliflower;— heads) >... - iscoe-si-ss a 16 
