_ Summer eeting, 
1900. 
MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 
MISS EMMA V. WHITE, MINNEAPOLIS. 
The meeting occurred at the State Agricultural School grounds, St. An- 
thony Park, on June 19, a somewhat earlier date than usual, but selected to 
accommodate the strawberry crops in the vicinity of the Twin Cities. In the 
absence of Professor Green, who is spending the summer abroad in the inter- 
ests of horticulture, his assistant, Mr. R. S. Mackintosh, escorted the visi- 
tors about the grounds, and Dean Liggett, with Professors Hays, Reynolds, 
Brewster and Shaw and others served also as hosts and helped to make the 
day enjoyable and profitable to the many interested and inquiring observers. 
As is the custom, the morning was spent in survey of the grounds and 
buildings with their diversified interests, in social greetings and converse of 
friends, many of whom see each other only at this yearly gathering, with the 
usual interest centering about the exhibits of fruit and flowers. The ex- 
ceedingly dry season affected the exhibits somewhat in quality though not 
much in quantity, as there were disp!ayed in the neighborhood of I50 plates 
of strawberries and a few of currants and gooseberries. Dr. Mary Whet- 
stone had a nice show of mushrooms, displaying some ten or fifteen edible 
varieties, and the Jewell Nursery filled a table with their beautiful roses, but 
the crowning exhibit of the day was that of Mr. R. H. L. Jewett, who 
showed forty-eight varieties of strawberries, raised on his fruit farm at 
Faribault. Between three and four hundred in attendance were served at a 
bountiful lunch, superintended by the Farm School people, who supple- 
mented the baskets o! the visitors by delicious coffee, lemonade, strawberries 
and cream and a plentiful supply of sandwiches. 
At 2:30 the guests gathered for the literary part of the feast, President 
Pendergast occupying the chair and opening the program in a few felicitous 
words of greeting. Mr. R. H. L. Jewett was called upon to give a talk on 
strawberries, and he responded by showing a number of varieties, speaking 
of their special characteristics somewhat as follows: 
“The Aroma is quite prolific, uniform in size and holds up well in chip- 
ment, and has done better this year than last. The Jerry Rusk, named after 
the secretary of agriculture, is a good show berry, but not so good for com- 
mercial purposes. The Manwell, much prized in Iowa, has not done so very 
well. Perhaps it will improve with irrigation. The Edgar Queen has been 
satisfactory in size and abundance of crop, but 1s not so good a commercial 
berry as some others, as it does not ship well. The Ruby has a great repu- 
tation in some parts of the country, but here it does not do so well, and is 
not good for commercial purposes. It does not ripen at the tips. The Star 
also has a great reputation in some parts. Here it is small. almost like a 
wild berry. The Ridgeway, an Indiana berry, is doing well here. It holds 
