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thought you might have had some experience of this kind and could 

 let us kuow. The cherries, peaches, prunes, pears and winter apples 

 are all more or less affected. Early apples are not hurt. The discolor- 

 ation extends from the snow line up eighteen inches tnore or less. 

 The branches are not much affected. The people here are espe- 

 cially anxiovis to know what to do with pears and apples. If the 

 apple trees are killed to the snow line, can they be cut off in the 

 spring and the stump grafted, that is, trees six or seven years old? 

 We had a heavy snow here and about a week of cold weather before 

 the leaves had hardly turned. The temperature was 20° or lower. 

 Zillah, Wash., Dec. 22, 1896. H. E. Burnley." 



Will any one please answer through the Horticulturist? 



Secretary. 



What Can Be Grown on One-tenth of an Acre.— "This is the 

 sixth year I have cultivated this 'patch.' This year I raised thir- 

 teen bushels Early Ohio Potatoes; all ripe in time to sell for fifty 

 cents per bushel; two pie pumpkins, self sown, five cents each; one 

 basket field corn, came up in the manure, value fifty cents; sage, 

 fifty cents; thirty quarts Burpee's lima beans valued at thirty cents 

 per quart, $9.00; sweet corn, 80 dozen at ten cents per dozen, $8.00, and 

 stalks $1.50; nine dozen hills of Nubia peppers, no fruit; one basket G. 

 Q. pop corn, value fifty cents; one peck pickling onions, twenty-five 

 cents; ten dozen cabbage, $3.00; three bushels peas, Premiutn Gem, 

 $3.00; carrots. Early Horn and Half Long, five bushels, $2.50; two 

 bushel beets, $1.00; parsnips, Hollow Crown, four bushels, $1.60; fifty 

 bunches turnips, $2.50; six dozen lettuce, ninety cents; sixty bunches 

 radish, $3.00; eight dozen tomato plants, $1.20; three bushel Golden 

 Wax beans, $3.00; twelve bushel tomatoes, $6.00; Egyptian onions, 

 31.00, in the ground j'et, total $55.55. 



Last j'ear the product was worth about $85.00 and two years ago I 

 realized about $100.00, prices being higher — getting fifteen cents per 

 dozen for corn, and having the piece in corn that year that I had in 

 potatoes this year. Besides the enumeration above, I have saved 

 my seed corn, beans, peas, etc. Wm. Gibson." 



New No. 823 E. Franklin Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. 



Osage, Ia., and the N. E. Iowa Horticultural Society.— "To the 

 Minnesota Horticulturist: — I have j ust returned from the meeting of 

 the North-East Iowa Horticultural Society at Osage. The city con- 

 tains three thousand inhabitants and is one of the beauty spots of 

 Iowa. Among the many attractions there are two that seein worthy 

 of special note, her beautiful trees and the character of her people. 

 Evergreen trees of all kinds seem perfectly at home and abound on 

 every hand. Then the hard maple, which in perfect health is the 

 most attractive of all our northern deciduous shade trees, lines near- 

 ly all the streets in the resident portion, and it takes but a little 

 stretch of the imagination to inix the shades of green and the golden 

 tints in a way to bewitch the lover of trees and, in fact, all the lov- 

 ers of the trul)^ beautiful. 



"At the close of the three days' meeting a banquet was served, and 

 the last item on the very elaborate bill of fare was '* toast." This was 

 freely indulged in b}'^ the great, the wise and the good, and for the 



