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oly were ruined with lip, while the same variety a few rods away, 
re worthless without it. 
* down. 
Mr. Jordan said the Duchess was not worth planting unless it 
was cultivated. 
After further discussion, a meeting was appointed to be held at 
‘the residence of Mr. William Somerville, when the meeting 
adjourned. 
, 
To give some idea of the horticulture of Olmsted sa the 
following extracts are inserted here: 
MINNESOTA FRUIT. 
From Rochester Record and Union of Sept. 8th, 1876. 
A few days since, Messrs. Sias & Somerville, proprietors of the 
College Hill Nursery, presented us with a large basket of fine 
fruit, which is worthy of more than a passing notice, since they 
have demonstrated that apples of the finest flavor can be grown 
successfully in Minnesota. They had picked the apples from their 
orchard, or nursery, selecting a few specimens from nearly every 
variety in bearing. There were in the lot 15 specimens of stan- 
dard apples and 10 different kinds of crabs. Besides these were a 
number of pears of the Flemish Beauty variety, grown to perfec- 
tion now for the first time. The following is the list of standard 
fruit: Duchess, Haas, Tetofsky, Melinda, Fameuse, Sops of Wine, 
Red Astra¢han, Ben. Davis, Goodenough, Prolific, Elgin Beauty, 
and four kinds of seedlings which appear hardy but have not been 
named. One specimen of Tetofsky measured 93 inches in circum- 
ference. 
Mr. Sias informs us that the Elgin Beauty and Prolific are this 
year bearing largely in the orchard of Mr. Rollins, the old trees 
having some three barrels of apples on them. He is not prepared 
to recommend these varieties fully, and he is experimenting largely 
with Russian varieties. He has two of the latter which have come 
into bearing this year—Koursk’s and Vasilis Largest. 
The latter variety resembles the Duchess somewhat. It is a 
large summer apple, and appears as hardy as the Duchess. 
A SUCCESSFUL FRUIT GROWER. 
From Rochester Record and Union, of January 26, 1877. 
Mr. R. L. Cotterell, of Dover, has one of the best, if not the 
sod, were perfect trees. Some varieties required cultivation, 
Mr. Sias said the slow- growing varieties he would not seed 
