126 | ANNUAL REPORT. , 
APPHNDIX C. 
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REPORTS OF LOCAL AND COUNTY SOCIETIES. 
OLMSTED COUNTY. 
MEETING OF MARCH 2D, 1878. 
The fifth annual meeting of the Olmsted county Horticultural Society was held 
at the office of the Record and Union on Saturday afternoon, March 2d, 1878. 
The Ten Commandments of Pomology. 
The meeting was called to order by the president, A. W. Sias, who proceeded 
to read the ‘‘ Ten Commandments of Pomology.’’ He said they were translated 
frrm the Prussian by a correspondent of the Horticulturist, and written by a 
Bohemian clergyman. They are as follows: 
1st. Thou shalt base thy faith only and exclusively on a vigorous seedling 
carefully raised; nor shalt thou sutter beside it either in thy orchard or nursery, 
any sucker, or make use of a sucker for propagation. 
2d. Thou shalt not call any kind of fruit tree by a wrong name. 
3d. Thou shalt keep a watchful eye on thy fruit trees during the time of their 
holidays (winter). 
4th. Thou shalt honor the parents of thy fruit trees (the wild sorts) on account 
of their seeds, in order to raise from them long lived, vigorous trees, for the bene- 
fit of the culture of fruit trees. 
5th. Thou shalt protect thy fruit trees from injury. 
6th. ‘Thou shalt not propagate thy fruit trees in any unnatural way. 
7th. Thou shalt not impoverish where fruit trees grow, by constantly taking 
from them without ever giving. 
8th. Thou shalt not bear false witness against the culture of fruit trees. 
9th. Thou shalt not be immoderate nor incautious: n thy desire for new kinds 
and varieties of fruit trees. 
10th. Thou shalt not always covet nurseries in the distance to select thy fruit 
trees from. 
Mr. Sias proceeded to read an extract from an interesting speech delivered by 
Mr. S. T. Jones of Kasson, at St. Charles, January 24th, 1878. He recommended 
the cultivation of small fruit. He who beautifies his home by setting trees and 
hedges, by cultivating gardens and orchards, was God’s honored steward and 
