2?8 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Article. Exhibitor. Premium. ' Amount. 



Brenda. Jewell Nursery Co., I,ake City . . . .First 75 



Salet Moss " " .... First 75 



Flora Mclvor " " .... First 75 



Crested Moss " " .... First 75 



Francois Esvet '" .... First 75 



Fisher Holmes ', " ... First 75 



Mabel Morrison " .... First 75 



Madm. Gabriel Luizet . ... " " .... First 75 



Magna Charta " .... First 75 



Anne de Diesbach " . . . . First . .75 



I, a France • . " .... First .75 



Ulrich Brunner •' " .... First 75 



Victor Verdier " " .... Fir.'t 75 



Madam Plantier " .... Second 50 



Crimson Rambler " .... First 75 



Queen of Prairie ...... " . . . . First ,75 



Harrison Yellow S. R. Spates, Markville First 75 



Blush " " First 75 



Seven Sisters Thos, Redpath, Wayzata First 75 



Gracilis Moss " First 75 



Pink Beauty W. 1,. Parker, Farmington Fir-t 75 



Rose Rugosa First 75 



Madam Plantier " First 75 



Seven Sisters Second .50 



Queen of the Prairie First 75 



Madm. Wood " First 75 



Basket " First 75 



Lady Washington First 75 



OLIVER GIBBS, Judge. 



VEGETABLES. 



Pie Plant Mrs. F. H. Gibbs, St. Anthony Park . Second 50 



Cucumber " " . First 1.00 



Asparagus S. R. Spates, Markville First 9 . 1.00 



Asparagus Wm. Lyons, Minneapolis Second 50 



Peas in pod '• First 1.00 



Pie Plant '• Third 25 



Potatoes " First 1.00 



Pie Plant H. F. Bussee, Minneapolis First 1 00 



A. BRACKETT, Judge. 



Orchard Planting in Minnesota in 1902. — An extraordinary amount 

 of nursery stock has been planted in Minnesota this season, and probably 

 nothing approaching the amount has ever been distributed in our state in any 

 one season before. Quite a number of orchards of a thousand or more trees 

 have been set out to the personal knowledge of the writer, and undoubtedly 

 there are many more of which he has not heard. With fifty nurseries in the 

 state, most of them employing agents, from one to 200 each, the opportunity 

 for purchasing nursery stock has not been lacking. The success of the past 

 few years has stimulated and is stimulating planting to a great extent. Outside 

 nurserymen have contributed liberally to this result. One pleasant feature of 

 this year's business is the large proportion of ornamental stock being planted, 

 which indicates an advance on the part of our people, not only in the ability 

 to purchase, but ; n an increasing interest in this equally important branch of 

 horticulture, which contributes so much to the development of our higher 

 nature. A word of advice at this time when orchard planting is so rapidly 

 extending would be to plant very sparingly of new varieties and stick to the 

 kinds that experience in your locality, or the advice of reliable planters, indi- 

 cates to be successful. Let the other fellows do more and you do less experi- 

 menting. Each planter should do some experimentation, but if restricted 

 the losses will be less and encouragement to further experimentation will be 

 greater. — Secy. 



The Present Membership. — The spurt made at the summer meeting to 

 bring the membership for this year up to 1,200 resulted in a decided success, 

 and with other names that have come in since has given us up to August 1st a 

 total of 1, 203 members, which will dountilwe still further increase it. — Secy- 



