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of their choice vegetables, that some of mine would have been put 
into the shade. 
Iam convinced that with proper manuring and cultivation that 
that district is unsurpassed for raising all kinds of roots and pulse, 
and also cauliflower and broccoli. I raised some heads of the former 
on land without manure, quite new, and never turned over either 
with plough or spade, that weighed, when trimmed, from two to four 
pounds each. The kind was Carter’s ‘“‘ Dwarf Mammoth.” 
I also raised to ripeness, corn, tomatoes and musk and watermel- 
ons, as also Marblehead and Canada Crookneck squashes. The to- 
matoes were of two kinds—Canada Victor and Carter’s Early Red, 
one of which latter, without any forcing, and taken from the plant 
with a large quantity of others, weighed one pound six ounces. 
But I do not think as a general thing or to be counted as a cer- 
tainty, that these fruits last referred to would ripen every year in 
that neighborhood. However, to sum up: I did not find my gar- 
dening business a commercial success, principally from the great 
collapse that occurred in the prosperity of my principal market, Du- 
luth, and from the fact, too, that owing to the lateness of the season 
at which garden products come to maturity, the public demand for 
early vegetables is supplied by importations from this neighborhood 
and the public appetite satisfied. There is therefore but small local 
demand for vegetables, properly so called, till Duluth rises from her 
present depressed state. My future intention, so far as I can peep 
into futurity at present, is to cultivate my land in small -fruits, and I 
hope at some future time to force from St, Paul a return of the dol- 
lars she now draws from Duluth for vegetables, for the strawberries, 
&c., I expect to send her before a very long period elapses. 
The seeds I used were in the major part brought from England. 
Before closing allow me to say a few words on “ hedges:” There 
seems a difficulty on the most part on this subject, where there should 
in reality be none. America, in many States, produces abundantly 
its own best plant for this purpose. I allude to the *‘ Pear Thorn.” 
It is objected to by some as too slow growing. This feature, I main- 
tain, is its great recommendation. What farmer wants to occupy 
valuable time every year in trimming or repairing fences? It is true 
the ‘* Pear Thorn” may be some years coming to a sufficient growth 
to repel cattle, sheep and hogs, but when once in that condition it may 
be said always to be so. What man, with a grain of judgment, can 
call willow a fence? It may be grown to be a wind-break, but can 
never be urged into a fence. Let me entreat my hearers to patiently 
give this plant a trial—say round their half acre or acre garden, or 
to a small enclosure of flower garden in front of their houses, and I 
am sure the result will be satisfactory to them. The raising of 
*‘quicks” will present itself, probably, to some of the nurserymen 
present, as another profitable branch of their profession. 
COMMITTEE ON ENTOMOLOGY. 
R. J. Mendenhall, Rey. J. Marvin, and J. 8S. Harris were appointed 
a committee on entomolgy. 
