180 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



MORGAN BROS., MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 



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Among other valuable gifts received during the paat year is a 

 very choice collection of native and foreign woods from the well 

 known horticulturist and writer, J. S. Harris, of La Crescent. This 

 gift is very highly esteemed and is especially useful to us for 

 instruction. Mr. Harris has also kindly permitted this division 

 to make a copy of his very complete and accurate catalogue and 

 description of the pomaceous fruits grown in the Northern slates 

 of the Mississippi Valley. This book contains descriptions, out- 

 lines and drawings of over two hundred apples and pears. 



IRRIGATION. 



The garden at the university farm has recently been equipped so 

 that about three acres of it can be irrigated. Provision was made in 

 1895 for experiments in sub-irrigation as compared with surface 

 watering, but the well distributed rains furnished sufficient water 

 for growing crops so that there was little advantage gained from 

 that arliticially applied. But we found it very convenient to have 



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IrriKatitifi Strawberry IMant^i. 

 water near at hand when transplanting and when renewing our old 

 strawberry bed. In the case of the old strawberry bed, each row 

 was watered as soon as cultivated after burning, and this was a 

 great help in giving the plants a vigorous start. The illustration 

 herewith shows the method followed in watering. Iron pipes bring 



