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CORRESPONDING CLIPPINGS. 



"Get a collection of wax models for your museum." (We have. Ed.) 



Prof. N. E. Hanson, Brookings, S. D. ' 

 "I think you are on the right track, and am very much pleased 

 with the Horticulturist." Robert Wilson, Jr., Glenwood. 



"Think you are doing the grandest work next to the spreading of 

 the gospel and the reform of the liquor traffic." 



W. T. Warren, Woodstock. 



"I think it is a mistake requiring fruit to be put in place the week 

 before the fair. It takes too much time for those that exhibit in a 

 small way and live at a distance." A. D. Leach, Excelsior. 



"I am greatly interested in reading the reports of the society, and 

 I ^m greatly benefited thereby. The Horticultural Society is an in- 

 stitution that Minnesota cannot well do without." 



S. B. Smith, Foreston. 



"I most heartily endorse the good work of the society, and shall 

 do all in my power to push it along. Our monthly magazine is a real 

 blessing to me. In it I find many 'pointers,' and I study all carefully." 



Andrew I. Engbretsen, Elk River. 



"Are there any remedies for plums puffing up, or blighting? Mine 

 were heavily mulched with coarse barnyard manure in the spring 

 before the frost came out, so as to make them later to avoid frost." 



Charles J. Orton, Marietta. 



"For some years back I have noticed that the red cedar was in- 

 jured. Within a few days I have noticed that the damage has been 

 done by a small worm. Probably kerosene emulsion or Paris green 

 will destroy it." J. R. Cummins, Washburn. 



"I purchased 100 seedlings from Mr. Gideon in 1888, nearly all of 

 which have borne fruit; thirty are in bearing this season. I have 

 one tree out of this lot that promises to be a first-class apple, both in 

 tree and in fruit." Henry Dunsmoor, Olivia. 



'My hobby is our native plums, and also hybridizing the sand- 

 cherry with our native plums. I have a good many seedlings grow- 

 ing and three fruited this year; two of them are larger than the 

 Compass (cherry.)" Joseph Wood, Windom. 



"Out of a few orchards planted about thirty years ago, where the 

 trees had no care, what do I find now? The only survivals are Si- 

 berain crabs, not only living but bearing annually. I think they 

 ought to be recommended for planting by the society." 



J. S. JERABEK, Silver Lake. 



"The only damage on my place from last winter was to a few 

 hundred seedling apples on high ground, and to some of my Do- 

 mestica plums. It is of no use for any man to bother to raise the 

 Domestica plum. It is all right in Japan, but it is not at home here. 

 Our best native plums are the only ones that give fruit and profit." 



Charles Leudloff, Cologne. 



"I am spending the summer in the northern part of Todd county 

 and find the people, especially the old settlers, very indifferent on 

 the subject of fruit growing. When I offer them my magazines 

 they refuse to read them, saying they cannot raise fruit up here, and 



