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their own roots are dead. It satisfied me that the Virginia makes 

 a hardier stock and the trees Hve longer. My object in working 

 on the Virginia was to avoid the Wealthy crotches. During the 

 time I am here if you have any questions to ask I shall be glad to 

 answer them if I can. That work has been to me next to my chil- 

 dren. Prof. Goff said it was the nicest specimen of work done at 

 one time he had even seen. Latham gave me fifteen minutes to 

 talk, but this does not come out of the fifteen minutes. (Laughter.) 

 There's no use telling you I am glad to be here, because if I wasn't 

 I wouldn't be here. (Applause.) 



The President : Mr. Clausen, the delegate from the Southern 

 Minnesota society, is now present, and I will call upon him for a 

 word. This is the first time we have had the pleasure of greeting 

 Mr. Qausen in any of our meetings, and I hope he will feel perfectly 

 at home. 



Mr. P. Clausen : I am very glad to be here and to have the op- 

 portunity of participating in the deliberations of this meeting. I 

 sometimes think I was born a horticulturist. I do not know whether 

 it runs in the blood or not, but I came to this country some thirty- 

 three years ago, and after being here a couple of years, being then 

 a young man of about twenty, I bought myself a couple of lots, and 

 the next thing I did was to buy some trees and plant them upon my 

 lots. I bought some apple trees from the Jewell Nursery Company, 

 and I planted those trees with the expectation of making that prop- 

 erty my future home. I expected to get a wife some time. I do 

 not know whether the trees are alive now or not, I have not seen 

 them for several years, but when I think of it I feel I have nothing 

 to regret, and I believe it would be a great deal better for a young 

 man to invest his money in that way than to use it as many young 

 men do at the present day. There are a good many young men 

 here this afternoon, and I want to say to them that when I had a 

 little time in the evening I did not hang about the stores or the 

 streets, but I put it in working on my lots. I had some flowers 

 there that I cultivated for my own pleasure, and then I also had those 

 apple trees. I might keep on telling you of the progress I made in 

 horticulture, but I am not here to represent myself, but to represent 

 the Southern Minnesota Horticultural Society, which is a daughter 

 of this organization. I might also mention at this time that a grand- 

 daughter has been born during the past year. I presume some one 

 will be here to represent the interests of the granddaughter so I 

 will say nothing about her at this time. As far as the Southern 

 Minnesota society is concerned you can very nearly judge of what 

 we are doing and what progress we are making by the papers which 

 appeared during the year in the Horticulturist, of which I believe 

 there were twelve. We had in our little city a very interesting meet- 

 ing of the society, quite largely attended, and we also had the great 

 pleasure of having Mr. Philips with us. I do not know how we 

 would get along without him. We had quite a number of brethren 

 from our sister state of Iowa, and altogether we had a very inter- 

 esting meeting and a very fine display of apples. If I were asked 

 my opinion as to what is going to be the coming winter apple I 

 should sav the Yahnke. 



