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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



SECY ELMER REEVES. 



WAVERLY, lA. 



Mr. Elmer Reeves, whose por- 

 trait accompanies this sketch, is 

 now, and has been since 1888, the 

 secretary of the Northeastern 

 Iowa Horticultural Society, and 

 was one of the orig-inal organ- 

 izers of that society inl885. 



He is both by inheritance and 

 training- a practical horticultur- 

 ist, his father having preceded 

 him as a nurseryman and or- 

 chardist, so that in his earliest 

 years he had instilled into him a 

 love for and knowledge of this 

 art. In 1881 he began cultivating 

 a nursery for himself at Waver- 

 ly, Iowa, where he still lives. 

 Previous to that he had received 

 a suitable training under Prof. J . 

 L. Budd,atthe Iowa Agricultural 

 College, and afterwards with that 

 veteran uurser3'man of northern Iowa, Mr. Charles G. Patton, who 

 is so well known to us all. 



Mr. Reeves is one of the younger race of Iowa horticulturists, be- 

 ing now 37 years of age, and we anticipate will do as much for the 

 horticulture of the Northwest as his vigorous youth and opportun- 

 ities give promise of. 



Late Bearing Trees. — H. M. Stringfellow. of Galveston, 

 Texas, writing of his experiences in this line, in the Rural 

 New Yorker, says: 



"A long experience has convinced me that no fruit trees should be 

 propagated from young trees that have never borne. If continued 

 long, it results in barren trees long after they should* begin to fruit. 

 In my own LeConte pear orchard, trees propagated from bearing 

 ones fruited full the fifth year, while those grown from cuttings 

 taken from youug trees that had been grown several generations from 

 young trees, never bore at all until nine, and bore full only the tenth 

 year. I have had oranges, propagated from bearing trees, fruit full 

 the third year, while those from young trees took seven and eight 

 years. I never noticed in the end, however, any difference in pro- 

 ductiveness. Continuous propagation from young nurser}' trees is 

 a great injustice to the fruit grower." 



