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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Grapes: Concord, Worden, Janesville, Delaware. 

 Raspberries: Red— Turner, Loudon, Purple— Schaffer. 

 Black Caps: Kansas, Older. 

 Blackberries: Ancient Briton. 

 Currants: Red Dutch, Stewart, White Grape. 

 Gooseberries: Houghton. 



Strawberries: Crescent, Haverland, Warfleld, Capt. Jack, Bederwood, 

 Lovett, Enhance. 



EUROPEAN NURSERIES. 



PROF. SAMUEI< B. GREEN, ST. ANTHONY PARK. 



There are many scenes in European nurseries which strike the 

 American nurseryman as pecuHar. Among- these there is perhaps no 

 way in which they differ so much from us as in the use of hand labor, 

 which in European nurseries almost entirely takes the place of horse 



Curious forms of pruning apples, pears and peaches seen at th e National School of 

 Horticulture, at Versailles, France. 



labor. This is undoubtedly due to the fact that hand labor is so very 

 cheap there. It is a common sight, too, to see women at work 

 hoeing and in the general work of keeping down weeds. The great 

 demand for trees trained in espalier and fan-shaped forms necessi- 



