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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 39 
mission. Strawberries are in season almost throughout the year, 
but the fruit i is not so richly flavored as ours. 
Cartan: 
‘The crop was very light, and in many instances an entire failure, 
owing to the injury received from the currant borer and worm (abrazxas 
ribearia.) In some cases the bushes were entirely destroyed. I 
managed to save a small part of my crop from the ravages of this 
pestiferous insect, by the use of Paris green and flour. One part 
Paris green to twenty-five parts flour dusted on when the bushes 
were wet with dew or wet by sprinkling | water. I prefer flour to any 
other article I have used. The gluten in the flour causes the green 
to adhere and often withstand several showers. I made two ap- 
plications during the season, and am in hopes to secure part of a 
crop the present year. 
Gooseberries. 
The gooseberry crop was very poor, owing to the loss of foliage 
by the small green gooseberry worm. Apply the same remedy as 
for the currant worm. 
Raspberries. 
The yield of fruit was quite small, the canes of both black caps 
and red Philadelphia being much injured the previous winter. Al-, 
though the winter of 1873 and 1874 was considered very mild, from’ 
some cause the raspberry canes in the spring were in many instances 
killed down nearly to the ground. 
Apples. 
Most of the apple trees withstood the winter withoutinjury. Many 
of the tender varieties have done well the past season, and some few 
bore quite abundantly, but as a general thing the crop was below 
the medium. The summer’s drouth caused many to fall premature- 
ly, and those remaining to ripen were in comparison with fruit of 
other years small. Many of our seedlings have risen in the estima- 
tion of our fruit culturists in a remarkable degree. Foremost among 
these stands the Wealthy, which should be looked upon with pride. 
And we as a society should render due praise to Peter Gideon, the 
originator and propagator of a seedling comprising hardiness, pro- 
ductiveness and flavor, qualities very essential to a tree in this cli- 
mate. It is sought after from all the States in the Union, and at no 
distant day will be looked upon as the ne plus ultra of the Northwest. 
Plums 
in the early part of the season promised a heavy yield. In July the 
trees were overladen, but the drouth in August shortened the crop. 
Still, plums were never more abundant in our market, ordinary qual- 
