50 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Raspberries were very few. The most of them were winter- 

 killed. The retail price was seventeen and eighteen cents per quart. 

 Some of them went even higher. Blackcaps and blackberries were 

 a total failure. 



Grapes did not ripen very well. Fruit tree planting is taking a 

 pretty good hold up here, and farmers seem to see their value more 

 every day. 



Evergreens and shade trees planted last spring did finely. 



FRUIT LIST. 



Apples : Duchess, Hibernal, Wealthy and Longfield. 

 Crabs: Minnesota, Tonka, Pride of Minneapolis. 

 Plinns: Desoto, Wolf, Forest Garden, Rollingstone. 

 Grapes : Concord, Delaware. 

 Raspberries : Red, Turner, Loudon. 

 Currants: Red Dutch. 

 Gooseberries : Houghton. 



Strazvberries : Crescent, Haverland, Warfield, Bederwood,. 

 Lovett. 



CAN WE GROW THE WINTER APPLE, AND HOW? 



F. W. KIMBALL, AUSTIN. 



In an article I wrote for the meeting last year I told how the 

 winter apple could be grown and that successfully by top-working, 

 but I feel that that only partly covers the ground and that winter 

 apple growing has got to be put on a more substantial basis, from 

 the fact that the common farmer will not, as a rule, do this, feeling 

 that he cannot : yet it is perfectly simple, and a child of ten or twelve 

 years of ordinary intelligence can graft successfully if shown how. 

 It is the every day farmer that we wish to interest ; it is his family 

 that we wish to see eating the fruit, and his children that we wish 

 to get interested in spreading the gospel of fruit growing. When 

 once the masses of the young farm children can be interested and 

 made to know the possibilities of fruit growing, then the problem is 

 solved, for out of those masses will come the genius and devotion 

 that will leave no stone unturned till the fact is accomplished. 



But can we do anything with what we have at hand ? I feel that 

 we can. Perhaps not all, as much depends on soil and location. 

 Given a location with the land sloping northeast — and the stronger 

 the better — and with a moist, retentive soil, yet one that does not hold 

 moisture so as to kill the roots, with proper care as to cultivation, 

 the preservation of the orchard as against all animals and the setting 

 of the proper varieties, I feel that one can succeed to a certain extent. 



