REPORT, SECOND CONG. DIST. 
tested by the public, the horticultural society can recommend them 
if they see fit. 
Chas. Luedloff writes me in regardtothe Kaump apple. “It is free 
from blight, a fine upright grower and perfectly hardy,” It is bear- 
ing freely in this section of the country. Set the Wealthy and 
Kaump side by side at the same time,and the Kaump will bear fruit 
enough to pay for the first cost of tree, the rent of the land and care 
of tree, before the Wealthy will bear any fruit. 
I have not recommended anything but what can be bought at the 
common price both in Minnesota and northern Iowa. 
FRUIT LIST. 
Apples.—Duchess, Wealthy, Hibernal, Tetofsky, Kaump and 
Longfield. 
Crabs and Hybrids.—Virginia, Whitney, Minnesota, Briar Sweet 
and Early Strawberry in limited quantities. 
Plaums.—Forest Garden, Desota and Miner. 
Grapes.—Concord, Worden, Agawam and Champion. 
Raspberries.—Turner for red, Schaffer for purple, Gregg and 
Souhegan for black. 
Blackberries —Ancient Briton and Snyder. 
Currants.—Stewart, Victoria, Long Bunch Holland and White 
Grape. 
Gooseberries.—Downing and Houghton. 
Straw berries.—Crescent, Warfield and Bederwood. 
VICE-PRESIDENT’S REPORT, THIRD CONG. DIST. 
MRS. A. A. KENNEDY, HUTCHINSON. 
In some localities the berry crop was fairly good, in other parts it 
was almostan entire failure. In my own yard strawberries were 
not over one-halfacrop. They were not touched by the frost, but I 
think we must have injured them by covering and uncovering 
them; I think we must have disturbed the pollen. Blackcaps did 
well with me; some of my neighbors complained of their bushes 
dying. 
I traveled down through the state by team; went down through 
St. Peter, Mankato, Mapleton, Wells and across the Iowa line as far 
as Plymouth, and coming back by Albert Lea astonished our 
brother, Clarence Wedge, by calling at his house about bed time. 
Here we saw the first fruit that was worth mentioning. In the 
morning he took us througb his grounds, and, O my, whata sight 
greeted our eyes (and mouths, for that matter)! His apples and 
plums were magnificent. Away down in the meadow, on alittle 
sandy knoll, we sawa strawberry bed, and, as [am a woman, I shall 
say it was just lovely. As we came up this way we saw three small 
orchards where the trees hung quite full. As we were going down, 
just before we came to New Auburn we stopped to feed,and I went 
into the garden where they had some apple trees growing, and 
every tree he had was badly blighted but his Peerless; they were all 
looking nicely except one that had died. 
