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Suggestions. 
The names of the exhibitors of fruits and what they had to show, and a list of 
the fortunate ones to whom were awarded premiums, and what they were 
awarded for, will be given before I get through. Permit me here to digress a little 
from the subject. The State Agricultural Society has given the control of the 
horticultural department over to the State Horticultural Society, while the 
entries in the department are made with the secretary of the former society. 
This practice is a fertile source of confusion and mistakes and I would recom- 
mend that hereafter if we continue to control the exhibition the entries be made 
direct with our secretary, and that we select the awarding committee and they 
also report to him. Again, every article competing for any certain prize should 
be arranged together to save useless labor and prevent unjust awards. 
Exhibitors and Exhibits—Houston County. 
The exhibitors from this county were J. S. Harris & Son, La Crescent, 225 plates 
of apples, including a general variety of autumn, winter and seedlings, also 
twelve varieties of Siberians. E. Evans, Mound Prairie, five varieties, as follows: 
Red Astrachan, Saxton, Duchess, Haas, and a seedling supposed to be Siberian, 
also other Siberians. B. Wooley, Hokah, two plates hardy and good seedlings, 
keeping all winter. J. Lottis, Hokah, four varieties, three of seedling apples of 
good size and fine appearance, one of them said to be a long keeper, and a seed- 
ling winter crab about the size of the Transcendent. Geo. Hartman, Hokah, ten 
varieties apples, one of Flemish Beauty Pears. Seven varieties of the apples were 
seedlings from medium to large size, equal to the same number of grafted varie- 
ties grown in the State; one a seedling of the Alexander, keeps until mid-winter. 
The pears were from a tree that survived the hard winter of ’72 and ’73, without 
injury, and has never blighted. The crop last year sold for $2.00. Andrew 
Hartman, Hokah, twelve varieities, nine of Seedlings one of St. Lawrence, one 
Greasy Pippin, one Perry Russet. Seedlings very fine. Henry Gosset, six plates 
as follows: Blue Pearmain, Sweet Pear, Rawles Janet, Ameriean Golden Rus- 
set, Perry Russet, Gloria Mundi. Jacob Daboll, six varieties: Haas, Famuese, 
Golden Pippin, Golden Russet, Perry Russet, Gloria Mundi. Antoine Boshel, 
Hokah, four, viz: Perry Russet, Price’s Sweet, Ben Davis and a Seedling. The 
orchards from which these exhibits were made had an aggregate fruitage this 
year of about 1,500 bushels of apples and 500 of crabs, and but for the frost in 
May would have more than doubled that amount, 
Winona County. 
The exhibitors were John Hart, George Clark, Mrs. H, Campbell and 8. Brain- 
erd. John Hart’s collection comprised about twenty-five varieties, some of them 
rare and most of them fine. Arrived too late to compete for premiums. George 
Clark had in his collection 36 varieties, all very fine. Gloria Mundi and Utter’s 
Large Red, magnificent. Mrs. H. Campbell, of Minnesota City, exhibited near 
100 plates. Seventeen or eighteen varieties were grafted fruits, the remainder 
seedlings and crabs. J. Brainerd’s exhibit was very fine Duchess. The Winona 
county fruit was’mostly shown by an agent unacquainted with varieties of fruit , 
and consequently at a disadvantage. 
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