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APPENDIX B. 
REPORTS OF MEMBERS OF GENERAL FRUIT COMMITTEE, PRE- 
PARED FOR, BUT NOT PRESENTED AT, THE SUMMER MEET- 
ING, JUNE 301TH, 1875. 
SMALL FRUITS. 
REPORT OF WYMAN ELLIOT, OF MINNEAPOLIS. 
The subject of small fruits has heretofore received too little at- 
tention in our discussions, but at the present time is very appro- 
priately placed on our programme, and I hope may receive such 
notice as it deserves. We, as a Society, in seeking to grapple with 
the all-absorbing topic of large fruit; as the apple and pear, have 
neglected to pay the notice due the strawberry, raspberry, currant, 
cranberry and native plum. The small fruits of our State are quite 
a source of revenue to our pioneer settlers, growing wild very 
abundantly in many localities, and being available to nearly all liv- 
ing in small towns and cities along our railroads. 
The cranberry in early Territorial days was considered free plun- 
der, but now a good cranberry marsh is thought to be a profitable 
possession, and lands that a few years ago were looked upon as 
worthless, are being improved. and soon will be our most productive 
and profitable. Among these are many fine locations in our State 
for cranberry growing, and all wanted to develop them is a little 
Yankee ingenuity and Western enterprise, The area used for cran- 
berry culture is added to each year, and in a few years such lands 
will become very valuable. 
The blueberry will before long be added to our list of cultivated 
fruits, and we shall doubtless see many new and improved varieties. 
as we have already of the raspberry and other fruits. 
Practical experience is what we need. Heretofore we have been 
experimenting singly, and have made no note of what we have 
learned. Each one learning something new for himself without in 
any way benefiting his brother horticulturist, consequently we have 
