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necessary care. We hope to hear from them often. Mr. 
Peterson’s was a well ripened life and garnered full of years. 
SEC’Y. 
Andrew Peterson was a man of sterling integrity and a lover of 
everything that he believed worked for the building up of Chris- 
tian character. He loved truth, he was patient, thorough, persist- 
ent, careful and enterprising. In his very successful efforts to 
better Minnesota horticulture, all these features of his character 
were prominent, “For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth 
grace unto every art.” 
Soon after Mr. Peterson came to Minnesota fe set out quite an or- 
chard, and among the trees were some Hibernal, which had then 
been recently imported from Russia in the attempt to get varieties 
that were adapted to this section where all those of the old list had 
failed. These Hibernal trees are the oldest of this variety in the 
state. They have now been standing about twenty-five years and 
have borne regularly large crops of good fruit and are now sound 
and good in every particular. During the last fifteen years they 
have attracted much attention as one of the most encouraging signs 
of the evolution of a system of horticulture adapted to this sec- 
tion. A little later Mr. Peterson planted a large number of varie- 
ties of Russian apples and brought into favorable notice the 
Anisim, Peterson’s Charlamoff,Cross and Christmas. Healso tried 
many native seedlings and Swedish varieties. I think he must 
have tried more than one hundred kinds of apples. He did not 
plant every variety sent out but only those that were especially 
promising. His location in Carver County was so far north that his 
experiments were of unusual interest and value to the people of 
Minnesota. His work, in fact, amounted to his carrying on at his 
own expense and in a most careful way for more than a quarter ofa 
century what amounted to a private experiment station. He proved 
to the people of Minnesota that apples could be profitably grown 
in this section; that some of the varieties imported from Russia 
were especially adapted to this section and could be depended 
upon. He also showed that many of them were worthless, and his 
labor of sifting the good from the bad Russian varieties of apples 
has been very helpful and valuable. He was a natural investigator 
and freely imparted the results of his experience. His reports to 
the horticultural society from year to year have done much to en- 
courage the development of pomology in Minnesota and surround- 
ing states. PROF. S. B, GREEN. 
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