MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



condition and at reasonable prices. When fruit is nice and prices 

 not too high there is a great deal consumed, but when fruit is high 

 and quality poor dealers and consumers alike pass it up with disgust. 

 Judging from the demand the past summer and the scanty supply, 

 I believe that in the next five years Dakota will consume ten times 

 the berries that Minnesota will naturally supply. The demand 

 seems to me to be heavy, and the supply very light. Why not in- 

 crease the supply ? The finest place I have seen in my travels to 

 grow small fruits is along the shores of Lake Superior and in the 

 Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The crop is usually from three to 

 four weeks later than in Minnesota. They have deep snows in 

 winter and abundance of moisture in spring and an early summer. 

 The summers are cool compared with the most of Minnesota and 

 the quality of all small fruits grown in this section is superb. The 

 finest strawberries I saw this past season were grown at Lake 

 Linden, Michigan, in the copper country on Kewenaw Point. I ate 

 them on the 20th of July at Calumet, Michigan. There should be 

 train loads of small fruits grown in those regions and shipped to the 

 south and west. 



AN ITALIAN GARDEN. 



The accompanying illustration is a very good view on a small 

 scale of a specimen of Italian gardening to be found on the shores 

 of Lake Waban, at Wellsley, :\Iass. It forms a part of the Hunne- 



An Italian Garden Scene on Honeywell Kstate. 



well estate, which is one of the most noted in the country as con- 

 taining a very full collection of such varieties of trees, shrubs and 

 vines as thrive in New England, chiefly of an ornamental nature. 



