ANNUAL MEETING, I902, SO. DAKOTA HORT. SOCIETY. l8l 



take water to the field with him to wash out his mouth; but now 

 he can get along by taking water only at the end of each row. 



Pres. H. M. Avery, of Sioux Falls, delivered an eloquent annual 

 address. 



The secretary's report showed that the society has thirty-four 

 members. 



The vice-president, from the Watertown district, made an in- 

 teresting report. 



Vice-President Dougan, of Plankington, reported a rain fall of 

 twenty inches. He saves moisture by plowing deep with a sub-soil 

 plow; but he cultivates shallow. He has three hundred apple trees 

 growing, but none have yet fruited. A member from Vermillion 

 remarked that they did not raise apple trees; they raise apple bushes. 

 Prof. Hansen spoke highly of the Repka Malenka, of the Martha, 

 the Mary and Lyman's Prolific. He thinks the Beta grape prom- 

 ising. 



A. Norby, of Madison, reported that the Wealthy is doing 

 better than the Duchess. He has an orchard twenty years old. 

 Patten's Greening and Malinda killed back badly. The Martha will 

 not bear. Lyman's Prolific is very hardy. He has grubbed out 

 his Transcendents. A member remarked that the best thing to 

 graft on a Transcendent was an ax. 



E. D. Cowles, of Vermillion, remarked that when a man raises a 

 grape in South Dakota it tastes sweet. Mr. Norby once had twen- 

 ty-eight varieties, but he has none now. Prof. Hansen could not 

 recommend any variety of cultivated grapes for South Dakota. 



C. O. Bailey, of Sioux Falls, read an interesting paper on orna- 

 mental trees and shrubs. He had found the soft maple short lived. 

 Wier's cut-leaved maple was unsatisfactory. Norway maple gives 

 good results. He prefers the purple-leaved Reitenbach variety, but 

 says it is liable to winter-kill some the first winter. Schwedler's 

 maple is of compact form and very hardy. Acer polymorphum has 

 not given good results. Sycamore maple winter-kills. Rock maple 

 is hardy but of slow growth. He reports a natural grove of rock 

 maple at Sisseton. Ailanthus winter-kills but can be cut down 

 every year, and the sprouts give a tropical effect. Cut-leaved elder 

 is doing well. The Juneberry is a satisfactory lawn tree; its leaves 

 turn to an intense crimson in autumn. Weeping birch is very 

 hardy. Hickory is hardy but of exceedingly slow growth. He 

 has had no success with chestnuts. Catalpa speciosa is doing well. 

 Hackberry is an exceeding symmetrical tree. Cladrastis tinctoria 

 seems to be perfectly hardy; grows as fast as basswood. The 



