THE MINNESOTA 



HORTICULTURIST. 



VOL. 30. JUNE, 1902. No. 6 



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iograpfyy. 



O. M. LORD, 



MINNESOTA CITY, MINN. 

 (See frontispiece.) 



The subject of this sketch is one of the early settlers of Minne- 

 sota, having in 1852 located a claim on the farm where he still lives, 

 being at that time twenty-six years of age. Coming from the state 

 of Michigan, at that early day already a fine fruit producing region, 

 he brought with him a love for fruits as well as a taste for their 

 cultivation, which has grown with his years, until for a long time 

 his attention has been given almost entirely to this pursuit. Plums 

 and berries, as he writes from his home in Minnesota City, "have 

 always been a success with me, and in late years a few varieties of 

 apples have done remarkably well." As a grower of plums, and 

 especially as an experimenter with the native American plum, Mr. 

 Lord is widely known, and his contributions to our knowledge of 

 this fruit are among those of the highest value. His more limited 

 success in apple culture is, in the judgment of the writer, largely 

 ascribable to the comparatively unfavorable character of his peculiar 

 location. 



Mr. Lord is at this time in his seventy-seventh year, but full 

 of vigor and ambition in the following of his favorite pursuit. The 

 frontispiece accompanying this shows him as he appeared only a 

 few days since in what were to him most pleasing surroundings. 

 (The words found beneath it are of his writing.) The picture was 



