HORTICULTURAL IMPROVEMENTS IN DULUTH. 3 II 



are getting some good experience. They are beautifying many of 

 the waste places about the city. 



In regard to fruit I would say that we have done well with our 

 apples, and our raspberries have done finely. I have been superin- 

 tendent of the county fair for ten years and always had the apples 

 more or less under my care. This year was a very poor year, al- 

 though I had a good supply myself. I am sorry that Duluth does 

 not show up well at the meetings of this state society. That is why 

 I long for the time to come when you can hold a meeting in our city. 

 I cannot tell you what we lose in. the way of trees and shrubs, I 

 have no business to do so. We brag about what we have, but 

 we do not talk about our losses. (Laughter.) One thing that 

 handicaps us is the lack of public interest. We want to "ding" it 

 into our people all the time that they must plant trees and shrubs, 

 and we want to enthuse the young people to take up this matter. 

 We have a city that has more beauty to the square inch than any 

 city in the Union for its position on the map. I heard some one talk 

 about being three hundred feet above the river. Why, bless you, 

 some of us are six hundred feet above the lake. 



Now I would like to say a word about my own fruit. I had the 

 best crop of black currants this year that I ever had. I had four 

 bushels, and I sold them all at fifteen cents a quart, and I did not put 

 them in boxes either, but I sold them by good fat milk measure. 

 (Laughter.) They were all large, and I had the good fortune to 

 take the first prize at the county fair. This year our people took it 

 into their heads to have a summer fair, and it came at just a time 

 when I could take this prize. I have some very good apples, and I 

 think if we imbibe the spririt of this society we shall soon be able to 

 report better things from the northern part of the state. 



The American PoMOtOGiCAt Society, through Sec. John Craig, 

 of Ithaca, N. Y., announces that the report of the proceedings of the 

 recent Boston convention is ready for distribution. This report contains 

 an unusually large amount of valuable matter, including as it does the 

 addresses of noted scientists and pomologists. Important changes appear in 

 the amended node of nomenclature. Members of the society pay a biennial 

 fee of $2, either to the treasurer, L. R. Taft, Agricultural College, Mich., or to 

 Sec. Craig. 



Last fall we had a fine young plant of salvia in the flower garden, and as 

 it was just coming into bloom about the time we were expecting frost it 

 seemed a pity to let it freeze, so we took it up and put it among the plants in 

 our window garden. It was never out of bloom from that day until late in the 

 the spring. It bids fair to be one of our best blooming plants. The bright 

 scarlet bloom is very showy, and as it is an upright grower, and has a limited 

 amount of foliage, it requires but little room. 



