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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Strawberries in our district winter-killed. In our garden, where 

 we mulched with leaves, they came through all right. We have had 

 the best success with Crescent and Bederwood. The early plums 

 bore a good crop ; later ones were cut off by frost. 



VICE-PRESIDENT'S REPORT, SIXTH CONG. DIST. 



MRS. JENNIE STAGER, SAUK RAPIDS. 



A great quantity of fruit plants were bought and planted this 

 spring throughout this section of country ; subsequently a good 

 part of it was lost, owing to the long continued drought. Quite a 

 large quantity of apples were harvested, but most small fruits did 

 poorly. Wherever fruit was mulched well, a good crop was har- 

 vested, but that was the exception. Of course, more fruit trees 

 and shrubs will be planted to replace those lost, as the omnipresent 



Flower garden and grounds at Mrs. Jennie Stager's residence. 



fruit agent will always give us the chance. Cultivated plums, al- 

 though not bearing much this year, have livecT and thrived, and there 

 is hardly a farm but has plum trees living and doing well. Rasp- 

 berries (Cuthbert and the old Philadelphia) I find in every part of 

 the country, as well as the Red Dutch currant, and in many places 

 finer but not more prolific kinds are found. In a way, we are get- 

 ting to be quite a friiit country up here. If only that thousand 

 dollar prize apple tree was in evidence. 



