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made possible because of the interested growers at home who 

 kept them coming in the large refrigerator cases of 48 quarts on 

 almost every train. Special credit is due Mr. Wyman Elliot of 

 Minneapolis for his good judgment, hustle and push in getting 

 out amongst the growers and selecting, packing, and starting the 

 berries so that they reached their destination fit for the exhibition 

 tables rather than the garbage can, which were receivers for 

 many arrivals of small fruits as they came to the building from 

 near-by states. 



A lady from one of the Gulf States said to me one day while 

 the strawberry display was at its best, "Those luscious looking 

 berries must have been grown under glass if they came from 

 Minnesota!" The very name of our state suggested blizzards 

 rather than strawberries to her mind ! 



The Minnesota Fruit Exhibit will do much to overcome the 

 prejudice that is still maintained in some portions of the South 

 and East, where the papers have given much more space in ad- 

 vertising our blizzards than they have in calling attention to our 

 possibilities as a fruit and vegetable growing section. 



If seeing is believing we shall make converts of some of the 

 old croakers at home and abroad before the World's Fair closes — 

 cherries, currants, gooseberries, raspberries, blackberries, plums, 

 grapes, etc., in their season are coming to fill the plates when 

 strawberries disappear from the scene. When Wealthy apples 

 are red and ripe we expect to give the World's Fair visitors at 

 St. Louis a surprise and treat equal to that enjoyed by them at 

 Buffalo, where they gave us credit of showing and freely dispens- 

 ing the best apples on the grounds. However, the anticipated 

 apple show will depend wholly on the Minnesota growers. If 

 they are as generous and careful in selecting and packing their 

 products as were the small fruit growers, we can capture the 

 approval of all who visit the Palace of Horticulture during the 

 months of October and November, when the attendence will be 

 at high tide. 



The fruit judges who scored our strawberries did not miss an 

 opportunity of taking a box, when ofifered, for dinner, which we 

 regarded quite suggestive. We advise all our readers to go to 

 the World's Fair and see for themselves. 



Why Fruit Trees Fail. — Country Life in .'^/w^r/r^? points out that the 

 dropping off of young fruit is not due to insect pests, as it is popularly sup- 

 posed. More often it is because of the fact that many varieties of fruits are 

 self-sterile and the blossoms require the contact of the pollen of other varie- 

 ties before they will mature fruit. Not getting this pollen, many fruit trees do 

 not bear at all or very much. The same trees treated by the new methods of 

 grafting and planting will often bear large fruit and plenty of it. 



