332 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Late Additions to the LiiiRARY.— New Jersey Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, Annual Report, 1896. 



Ohio Ag-ricultural Experiment Station, Annual Report, 1895. 



New Jersey State Horticultural Society, Annual Report, 1897. 



Minnesota Legislative Manual, 1897. 



"National Nurseryinen," 1895. 



"Gardening," Vol. II. 



"Gardening," Vol. III. 



"Canadian Horticulturist," 1894. 



"Canadian Horticulturist," 1895. 



Connecticut Agricultural Exp. Station, 20lh Annual Report, 1896. 



North Carolina Agricultural Exp. Station, 9th Annual Report, 1896. 



Fire Warden, Minnesota, Annual Report, 1896. 



Ontario Fruit Growers' Association, Annual Report, 1896. 



Minneapolis Park Commissioners, Annual Report, 1896. 



Hatch Experiinent Station (Massachusetts), Annual Report, 1896. 



Columbus, Ohio, Horticultural Society, Annual Report, 1896. 



Western New York Horticultural Society, Annual Report, 1897. 



Horticulture in the Red River Valley.— A day spent in this 

 interesting and unique region, in the middle of July, gave only scant 

 opportunity to know its possibilities in horticulture. Making the 

 run down the valley in the evening, the first opportunity for obser- 

 vation was in an early morning stroll at Crookston, where luany 

 pleasant homes were found adorned by a variety of hardy shrubs 

 and the fruit gardens well supplied with crab apple, plum trees and 

 plenty of small fruits. But this town is beautifully sheltered by the 

 fringe of native timber that borders both sides of a vigorous trib- 

 utary of the Red,which winds along westward j ust north of the town. 

 The sub-experiment station operated by the state lies north of this 

 stream, in a better position to test the possibilities of a trying 

 wintei- climate. As this station is only in its second year, the stock 

 growing there had passed only its first winter. It consisted apparentl}'^ 

 of the usual varieties of hardy fruits, and looked all right to a hur- 

 ried examiner. At Grand Forks, at noon, a drive through the sub- 

 urbs developed great fields of waving grain and a too lively atmos- 

 phere laden with the rich dust of the valley highways. Evidently 

 the people of this prosperous city are lovers of the beautiful in 

 growing nature, as the pleasant grounds around its many attractive 

 homes testified, but there was no time for nearer inspection, as we 

 must be in Fargo at 4:00 p. m. 



The state experiinent station at Fargo shows intelligent care — but 

 who can make satisfactory headway against a flood that makes your 

 country a "waste of waters" to be gone over for days only w^ith boat 

 and oars? But a way will be found to overcome even this unexpected 

 difficulty, and the work will go on to success. At 6:30 p. m., speed- 

 ing up the valley south for home — this expression does'nt sound 

 just right, but is literally true. 



In one noteworthy way, the valley is succeeding in its horticul- 

 ture, its shelter belts of Cottonwood, ash and box elder trees are 

 springing up around every homestead. Twenty-five years since, it 

 was said trees even would not grow there, but now in large groups 

 they dot the landscape or fringe the distant horizon, changing the 

 face of nature and making possible a "home" with all homelike sur- 

 roundings in this otherwise lonesome valley. 



