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MINNESOTA STATE HOKTICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 



STRAWBERRIES IN NORTHEAST MINNESOTA. 



A. W. LATHAM, SEC'Y. 



E. G. Bovee, of Carlton, Minn., has the honor of being- the pioneer 

 commercial strawberry grower on a large scale in the northwest, or 

 Lake Superior, region of our state. (Carlton is about twenty miles 

 southwest of Duluth). Notwithstanding the rigor of the winter 

 season so much farther north, the berry seems very much at 

 home there, and stimulated by the damp breezes from the lake it 

 grows to an unustaal size, without injury in any perceptible degree 

 to its flavor. The accompanying plats, showing Warfield and Beder- 

 wood of the natural size, and the comparative size of the berries, as 

 seen in the crates in the view of his berry field, convey a good idea 

 of the unusual size of this fruit. 



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BEDKRWOOD. (Exact size.) 



Of this particular field of which the view is given, Mr, Bovee 

 writes that, "It contains about three acres and yielded last season 

 about 300 cases of 24 quarts each. The varieties were Warfield and 

 Bederwood. This was not a large yield, as the frost hurt them 

 some, and I do not think they were fertilized enough. I had other 

 fields that did better, containing Warfield fertilized with Bederwood, 

 Jessie, Wilson and Lovett." 



Mr. Bovee at other times has spoken of this subject of fertilizing 

 and is evidently inuch impressed with the necessity of using some- 

 thing besides the Bederwood for that purpose, and he asks whether 

 "any one else is complaining of Bederwood not being a good ferti- 

 lizer for Warfield." In another place he says: "The Bederwood is 



