270 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



AWARD OF PREMIUMS. 



At the Summer Meeting of 1897 of the Minnesota State 

 Horticultural Society. 



Flowers. 



Article. Exhibitor. Preni. Amt. 



Collection greenhouse roses E. Nagel First $2.00 



Collection greenhouse roses Jewell Nursery Co Second 1.00 



Boucjuet greenhouse llowers ...E. Nagel First 1.00 



Bouquet greenhouse ilowers Jewell Nursery Co Second .75 



Boufjuet out-door flowers Jewell Nursery Co First 1.00 



Collection out door roses Jewell Nursery Co First 2.(X) 



Collection out-door roses . J. R. Cummins Second 1.00 



Mrs. F. C. Parker, 

 Mrs. Thos. Shaw, 

 Mrs. J. W. RAY, 



Committee. 

 Strawberries. 



Article. Exhibitor. Pretn. Amt. 



Warfield C.W.Sampson First $1.00 



Wilson C. W. Sampson First 1 .00 



Bederwood C. W. Sampson First 1.00 



Bederwood R. H. L. Jewett Third 50 



Warfield R. H. L. Jewett Second 75 



Haverland R. H. L. Jewett First 1.00 



Michel's Early R. H. L. Jewett First 1.00 



Crescent Anna B. Underwood First 1.00 



Bederwood Anna B. Underwood Second .75 



Bederwood A. H. Brackett Third 50 



Crescent A. H. Brackett Second .75 



Haverland A. H. Brackett Second .75 



Bubach A. H. Brackett First 1.00 



Lovett A. H. Brackett First 1.00 



Michel's Early A. H. Brackett Third 50 



Collection C. W. Sampson First 3.00 



J. T. Grimes, 



Wm. Somervville, 



H. M. IvYMAN, 



Committee. 



PEACHES. 



G. F. FLATIN, SPRING GROVE. 



The past season has not been a fair one for peaches. My trees 

 were overloaded the season of 1895, and on account of the continu- 

 ous drought we had the trees made a small growth and were not in 

 good condition for fruiting. My seedling trees produced a small 

 crop of peaches of good quality. I have four varieties of budded 

 peach trees, planted three years, that set a large number of fruit 

 buds, but the buds dropped off before blossoming. It has generally 

 been the case that young trees do not fruit well with me. I have 

 been in the habit of laying down the trees without using poison for 

 mice, and they have been more or less girdled by mice; the last 

 year (1896) two of the trees were seriously injured by mice. The 

 varieties fruited by me are mostly seedlings of a late variety 

 ripening the latter part of September, except in the season of 1892 

 when they did not ripen till October llth. 



