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In the matter of tying- them up, I tliink the plan Mr. Underwood 

 referred to of using wires is the best and cheapest and the most 

 satisfactory. Some varieties do better without tying up than others. 

 I have not been able to grow SchafTer's Colossal without tieing. I 

 go (juite often on the market witliout saying an^'thing to anybody', 

 and I think mj' friend Hopkins cen justly claim to get the best 

 prices for berries of anybody who comes to the Minneapolis market, 

 and for tliat reason I take a great deal of stock in his judgement as 

 to the varieties to plant. 



There is one other item I want to refer to briefly, and if there ia 

 time during the course of this meeting I want to talk about it a lit- 

 tle further. Some of tis grow berries for market, but the thousands 

 and thousands of people of Minnesota who are interested in the 

 work of this society do not grow fruit for market. I honestly 

 believe there is a better way of growing strawberries for the fatnily 

 than is recommended b}' the market gardeners. I have made experi- 

 ments in that line, and sometime during the course of this meeting 

 I want to talk about that. 



NOMENCLATURE AND CATALOGUE. 



J. S. HARRIS, LA CRESCENT. 



Fruits received for name since the late annual meeting: From M. 

 CofTin, Bear Valley, Minn., one specimen, medium size, smooth, 

 roundish, greenish-yellow with light blush cheek, ilesh fine-grained, 

 yellowish, subacid flavor, good. We pronounce it from the single 

 specimen, with the stalk gone, to be one of the Rollins' seedlings 

 and, probably, the Rollins' Pippin. The tree of this variety is 

 nearly as hard}' as the Wealthj^ but too slow and shy a fruiter to be 

 profitable for planting. 



Form E. M. Lewis, Kenyon, Minn., four samples, all past their 

 best season, except No. 2. No. 1 is a large fruit — not able to identify 

 it. No. 2 is the Malinda, an excellent long-keeping apple, growing 

 in favor. It has been described in previous reports, but for the bene- 

 fit of new members we give it again. Size full medium; form ovate 

 conical, sliglitly angular or live-sided; color when fully ripe, lemon- 

 yellow, often with a pale blush cheek; stem medium, in a narrow deep 

 cavity; calyx closed, in a medium deep narrow-ridged basin; flesh 

 tine, firm, yellow; flavor subacid, sweet; season Jan. to May. The tree 

 as a root graft is slow in coming into bearing and should always be 

 topworked upon some hardy stock like Hibernal or X'irginia Crab 

 No. 3 is the Wealthy, and No. i appears to be the Famense, and I 

 should judge it was raised on a sucker or sprout of a tree that was 

 killed to the ground in 18'J-l 5. 



Mr. II. Knudson,of Springfield, has named his hybrid sand cherry 

 the "Compass" cherry, by which name it is hereafter to be known 

 as the name has been accepted by the committee on nomenclature. 



