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city who know anything- about this exhibition. Why don't you 

 invite the people to come in? I invited my son-in-law to come in. 

 I told him there was a display of apples here that cost $50,000. It 

 is worth more than that. The citizens ought to have been notified, 

 the people of the city generally ought to have been notified to come 

 in here and see these apples. 



Sec'y Latham : I think probably a\Ir. Kellogg labors under a 

 misapprehension of facts. The truth is that for as much as four 

 weeks prior to this meeting it was thoroughly and extensively ad- 

 vertised in the daily papers, and certainly no one who takes a daily 

 paper in this city or anywhere near, for that matter, can truthfully 

 say they did not receive notice of this meeting coupled with a cordial 

 invitation to attend, with a full statement of the nature of the display 

 of apples and other fruit that would be made here. The whole 

 trouble lies in the fact that people in the city are not sufficiently 

 interested in the matter of fruit raising to take the time and trouble 

 to come and see the fruit that is displayed here. 



HORTICULTURAL VENTURES, WISE AND OTHERWISE. 



DE\\^\IN COOK, JEFFERS. 



The spring of 1885 I bought of a ]\Iankato man a couple dozen 

 apple trees. Duchess, \\>althy and Whitney's No. 20, the only kinds 

 of apples, he said, that were recommended by the Minnesota State 

 Horticultural Society. I planted them on my prairie farm, in Cot- 

 tonwood county, and most of these trees are still alive, healthy and 

 productive. 



This same spring I set out two plum trees, a De Soto and a 

 Weaver. The De Soto is now alive and in fair condition,, the 

 Weaver died young. I think it root-killed. 



Also at this time we went to a deserted farm and dug plants 

 from a run-out strawberry bed. They were the only plants avail- 

 able at this time. We got a fine stand of plants but never a berry ; 

 they were all pistillates. In the spring of 1886 we set out a great 

 variety of Russian fruit trees from the Iowa Agricultural College 

 grounds, apples, plums, cherries, apricots and pears — about 250 trees. 

 Out of this lot, if we except the Borovinka, which is only another 

 name for the Duchess, only four apple trees, two each of Breskovka 

 and Hibernal, have proved both hardy and productive. The pears, 

 cherries, apricots and plums showed weakness the first winter, and 

 we saved ourselves from much further loss by planting a Duchess 

 apple tree about four feet in the row from each one of them. 



In iSSx I planted twenty-five Forest Garden plum trees. In 

 the season of 1890 they bore a nice little crop — that was before 

 the advent into my orchard of the curculio, gouger, plum rot and 

 borers. These plums were fine, although a little soft when ripe, 



