20 MINNESOTA STATE HOETICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 



STRAWBERRIES. 



Pistillate: Crescent, Warfield, Haverland. 



Staminate: Bederwood, Enhance, Lovett, Splendid, Mary, 

 Clyde. 



NATIVE FRUITS. 



Valuable for trial: Dwarf Juneberry, Sand Cherry, Buffalo 

 Berry. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. R. H. L. Jewett: The report specifies "first degree of 

 hardiness" and "second degree of hardiness." Is that the only 

 requisite? If that is so there are some other trees left .out. Why 

 is the Peerless left out of the first and second list and put in for 

 trial? 



Mr. Clarence Wedge: The Peerless is not disparaged at all 

 by the committee as to its hardiness, but it is put in with others 

 of a similar degree for trial on the trial list. It has no stigma of 

 lack of hardiness. 



Mr. O. F. Brand: I would like to inquire of the committee why 

 the Patten's Greening is on the first list and the Peerless left off. 

 The Patten's Greening has never passed through a trial winter as 

 a fruiting tree in this state. There was only one tree outside the 

 state, and that was not a bearing tree, in 1884. I do not know any- 

 thing about the Patten's Greening in the state, but I do know some- 

 thing about the Peerless, because the original tree had borne 

 nine bushels of apples in 1884, the year before the hard winter, 

 and in 1886 it had eleven bushels. In 1884, the Patten's Greening 

 had never borne more than two bushels of fruit, taking Mr. Pat- 

 ten's word for it. It has only a few leaves on it, and you can see 

 every apple on the tree, and it makes a great showing of fruit; but 

 the Peerless has many leaves and hides its fruit, and it looks as 

 though there were but a few apples on the tree. I think this com- 

 mittee is doing an injustice in keeping out varieties like the Peer- 

 less and Okabena from the first list and putting them in the trial 

 list, varieties that have beeen planted as long and extensively as 

 they have. 



Prof. Green: We discussed very carefully this year the mat- 

 ter of putting the Peerless and Okabena on the list of first degree 

 of hardiness. Mr. Brand asks why the Patten's Greening was put 

 on. It was put on two years ago because in the opinion of the com- 

 mittee and in the opinion of the society it had proved hardy enough 

 to warrant it. The reason why the Peerless and Okabena were not 

 put on this year was simply because the committee did not want 

 them to be in the second list, and they were not quite ready to put 

 them on the first list. The second list is of "the second degree of 

 hardiness," and we felt it was better for those two apples to stay 

 where they are, and for next year the committee proposed this : that 

 instead of having our fruit list made up as it is now, which I do not 

 like, to take up those varieties one by one and give a dissertation of 



