AWARD OF PREMIUMS, I9O2. 



13 



No. 2 



Variety 



Hamburg 

 Allington 

 Wenonah 

 Leona . . 



Exhibitor Premium Amount 



C. Fink, Victoria. 1 . 80 



Nils Anderson, Lake City 1.90 



J. W. Ramsden, Homer. 



1.90 

 1.90 

 1.80 

 2.20 



T. Redpath, Wayzata 1.90 



W. L. Parker, Farmington 1.80 



No. 6 Jewell Nursery Co., Lake City 1.90 



S " 1.80 



WYMAN ELLIOT, 

 SAM'Ia B. GREEN. 



Judges. 

 GRAPES. 

 Variety. Exhibitor. 



Massasoit Gust. Johnson, Excelsior 



Wilder 



Martha 



Herbert " 



Moore's Early " 



Pokepsie Red " 



Bovey 



Lindley " 



Delaware 



Concord " 



Pocklington . . 



Agawam 



Rogers No. 39 



lona 



Duchess 



Concord 



Agawam 



Lindley 



Brighton 



Premium. Amount. 



First 75 



First 75 



First 75 



First 75 



First 75 



Second 50 



Second 50 



Second 50 



First 75 



Second 5G 



Variety. 

 Collection of Plants. 

 Table Bouquet 



PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL ADDRESS. 



W. W. PENDERGASX, HUTCHINSON. 



With the present meeting- we celebrate the thirty-sixth anni- 

 versary of this society. Every year of its existence has marked 

 some progress. Apples, plums, pears, cherries and small fruits 

 are better and more abundant as years go by. At the outset we 

 could boast only of currants, raspberries, gooseberries, strawberries 

 and plums ; now we are successfully growing more than forty dif- 

 ferent varieties of apples and at least double that number of plums, 

 while the small fruits are almost beyond computation. 



There are several members of this society who were here when 

 the first apples in the state were raised — in fact not a dozen years 

 have elapsed since it was generally admitted that they were a pos- 

 sibility. Since that time many a man has told his neighbor to go 

 on planting apples and he would plant box-elders and raise just as 

 many apples as he did. Those men have lived to see a crop of 

 500,000 bushels of apples grown in the state and on visiting the 

 state fair have been amazed at the great number of varieties there 

 on exhibition from every part of the state. He will also wonder 

 at the success which has been attained in growing pears and cherries. 



