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quantity of fruit to be found in the Minnesota orchards. Those wlio 

 intend to store for these exhibits should gather their fruit while still 

 hard. This is a very important point. Wrap each specimen care- 

 fully as taken from the trees to prevent bruising, and send immedi- 

 ately by express to the cold storage as directed. The secretary 

 should be notified of all such shipments. It will not be necessary 

 to send a notice to the cold storage house. 



There are many varieties of apples that can be kept up to the 

 time of the state fair, but earlier varieties need to be stored. You 

 may have the necessary facilities for doing so at home and thus 

 save some trouble. 



The premiums offered by the state fair management and those 

 which will be offered by the horticultural society next winter will, 

 we hope, fully compensate for any trouble you may be put to in 

 making the exhibits. We are all interested to a large degree in the 

 high standard of merit which our society has achieved, without the 

 assistance of which no such collections of fruits could be got 

 together as we are in the habit of displaying 



Injury to the New York Vineyards:— There seems to be no 

 doubt that the grape vines in the western New York vineyard 

 region are in a seriously injured condition and will show it very 

 much in the amount of this crop, perhaps require several years to 

 fully recover. Prof. E. G. Lodeman, who, according to "Fruit," haa 

 recently visited the vineyards of Chautauc^iua county, is inclined to 

 ascribe the injury to the severe frost of May 12, 1805, which caught 

 the vines with a long succulent growth of cane. A correspondent 

 of the American Agriculturist, writing from Genesee county, an 

 adjoining county, refers their injured condition to the extreme cold 

 of the past winter, which touched the unusual extreme of 2.5^ below. 

 (It must be remembered that in that section the grape vines are not 

 buried.) He says: 



"The appearance of the grapes is enough to make any one weep. 

 That miserable old Clinton comes out smiling, with every bud 

 growing. Worden, Cottage and Marth« are very little hurt. Duchess, 

 Prentice, Jefferson and Victoria show no sign of life anywhere and 

 seem to be dead even in root. Of fortj'-five other varieties grown by 

 the writer, there seems to be little difference. They are starting out 

 below the snow line, and there are now and then occasional weak, 

 sickly shoots that have started from a dormant bud above the snow's 

 protection." 



(Later reports show, as is usually the case, much less injury than 

 at first appeared.) 



Horticulture in Northern Mi.n'nesgta.— A pleasant trip in the 

 pine regions of northern Minnesota last week gave an oppor- 

 tunity to note some of the matters of interest to our horticultural 

 friends in that section. Grand Rapids, the extreme northern point 

 visited, which is in about the latitude of Fargo, N. D., seems like an 

 entirely different world on account of the difference in the character 

 of the soil and of the trees and other plants growing there. The 

 Mississippi river at this point is but a narrow stream, a hundred or 



