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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 1381 
the fruit sets, if it did not kill the plants, so that in this part of the State 
most of the beds were a failure. Still, enough have been raised in past 
years to prove that with care they can generally be relied on in this part of 
the State. They are the ne plus ultra of canned fruits, when canned prop, 
erly at home. The same is true of drying them. But comparatively very 
_ few are yet raising them, and most will persist in getting plants from old 
adulterated beds of Wilsons, or those entirely spurious because they are 
free, rather than paying a fair price for true plants. This is owing mainly 
to the fact that people are generally ignorant of the tendency of superior 
kinds to be run out by those that are inferior when not cared for in that 
particular. Should not the exquisite relish that all people have for berries 
of various kinds, the tendency to social enjoyment in their eating at table, 
their extreme healthfulness, the source of delight to old and young in seeing 
them gtow and produce so bountifully under good care, and the disappoint- 
ments so common to children in their futile tramps in search of inferior wild 
ones to gratify their natural yearnings, induce every farmer and gardener 
not to delay their cultivation, who has a true desire to please and to make 
home and society pleasant? 
Planting costs but little, the care required is not great nor irksome to a true 
taste, and remuneration quick and profitable. Would not short essays read 
before the Society at different times in future, as in the past, and published, 
discussing which are the best kinds, and what are the especial modes of cul- 
ture necessary to their highest development and productiveness, thus keep- 
ing the subject before the minds of the people, and giving them instruction, 
be likely eventually to prove of eminent usefulness to the public? 
G. H. Fisu. 
TRANSACTIONS NOT RECEIVED. 
A motion was made that members who have not received the 
Transactions of the Society. shall be entitled to the missing num- 
bers by applying to the Secretary and forwarding postage. 
The motion was carried. 
The meeting adjourned to meet at 7:30 P. M. 
THURSDAY EVENING. 
DELEGATES TO MEETING OF AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The meeting was called to order at 7:45. 
A motion was made that the President appoint two delegates 
and attend as a third himself. 
