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FRUIT IN MILLE LACS COUNTY. | 267 
There were added, as members (with the officers) of the executive 
committee, Mrs. J. R. Cummins, Eden Prairie; Miss Emma E. Grimes, 
3209 Nicollet ave., Minneapolis; Dr. Mary S. Whetstone, 506 Nicollet 
ave., Minneapolis. } 
Voted, that Mrs. Underwood be our delegate to the convention of 
the Women’s Clubs of Minnesota in Winona next October, and that 
she be empowered to appoint a second delegate if our numbers per- 
mit. 
Voted, that the executive committee draw up a constitution to be 
presented at the time of the next meeting of the State Horticultural 
Society. 
Ladies were requested to give their names to the secretary, and 
nineteen joined at once. An annual fee of twenty-five cents was 
decided upon. All ladies interested in horticulture, whether mem- 
bers of the State Horticultural Society or not, are urgently reques- 
ted to unite with us in this work, and send their names and fee to 
the secretary. 
Adjourned. 
EMMA V. WHITE, President. 
Lucia E. DANFORTH, Secretary. 
FRUIT IN MILLE LACS COUNTY. 
D. H. RQBBINS, VINELAND. 
(A Communication.) 
Your suggestion that I write a report of what I have been trying 
to doin the shape of fruit raising up here at Mille Lacs Lake, and its 
results, knocks me way over the fence. Writing reports is entirely 
outside of my accomplishments, yet I can give you a few pointers as 
to what I think can be done up here by any one who has the time and 
desire totry. Here where I am located, at the southwest corner of 
the lake, wild fruit, such as plums of several varieties and wild 
plums, are very abundant. Two years agoI sent to the Lake City 
nursery and obtained a variety of scions to graftin the wild plum 
. trees upon my place, to see what they would amount to. I grafted 
200 trees. Eighty per cent. of them proved a success, and some of 
them today are about an inch in diameter; some of them flowered 
last spring butI picked them off. Iexpect they will bear to some 
extent this year. I feel so elated over my experiment I shall graft 
several more this spring, and also graft in some varieties of hardy 
cherries. I planted five years ago fifty apple trees of different kinds, 
of which about twenty-five are bearing more or less nicely; the 
others were killed by rabbits girdling them. Several parties have 
experimented with apples on the west shore of the lake. Messrs. 
Jabies and Hazelton have a number of fine bearing apples of alarge 
variety. Although I havea growth of currants and gooseberries, it 
is unnecessary to try to raise small fruits, as berries, such as redand 
black raspberries, blackberries, huckleberries, or blueberries, gener- 
ally grow here wild in such an abundance that they are almosta 
nuisance. The small sweet black cherry grow also in abundance, 
but the birds claim them as their share of the good things as fast as 
they ripen. Juneberry trees and the wild high cranberry are also 
very plentiful, and every section of land within miles of here has at 
least one cranberry bog uponit. Consequently, the settlers here do 
not have to trouble themselves to raise small fruits, for from the 
time strawberries come in June (and they can be found in abund- 
ance in every opening) until frost comes in September, the settler 
can find small fruits in abundance near his home and in their sea- 
son. The only question that bothers them is to obtain the neces- 
Sary sweetening to preserve them. Your proposition in regard to 
supplying the schools with the society reports meets my favor, and 
I think it a good one. 
