128 ANNUAL REPORT. VERA 
RocuusteR, January 21, 18 19. 
To the Minnesota State Horticultural Society : 
Your committee appointed to visit and report on John Hart’s Seedling § 
berry did so last June. We were met at Stockton by Mr. Hart, who c 
us to his home some three miles below. We were cordially received by 
wife and daughter who soon invited us to partake of a most sumptuous 
strawberries and cream, and many other good things too numerous 1 
After satisfying the inner man to our heart’s content, we proceeded to 
the merits of the new candidate for public favor, secretly wishing that Ww 
be appointed a committee to visit the Hart’s Seedling annually r 
visiting the vines we found that ownig to late frosts there was but a 
ing of well matured fruit, but the vines were well laden with withered blo 
and fruit in the embryo state that had evidently been killed by the frost. Julene 
from these we should say it is a good bearer, better than the Wilson, Great 
American, Monarch of the West or Russell’s Prolific, all ot which we found 
growing in close proximity to it. The Hart’s Seedling is a strong grower resem- 
bling in vine and leaf the Russell’s Prolific, of which we judge it to be a seedling. 
The fruit is uniformily large, moderately firm, slightly conical and regular in 
form, color crimson scariet, fruit stalks long and stout, leaves large and numer- 
ous, being from three to five leaflets on a stalk; blossoms large and perfect, vines 
hardy—standing summer’s sun and winter’s cold without apparent injury. 
And now in conclusion we wish to congratulate Mr. Hart, and also the State 
Horticultural Society on the discovery of another new Minnesota Seedling Straw- 
berry that, in our humble opinion, will prove a great acquisition to our already 
fine list of American Strawberries, and as we are unavoidably absent from the 
present session of the society, we hope you will give this new candidate the at- 
tention its merits seem to demand. 
Respectfully submitted, 
M. W. COOK, 
A. W. SIAS, 
GEO. W. MASON, 
Committee. 
Mr. Harris. Last summer at the time of the May frost Mr, 
Hart’s vines were literally loaded with blossoms and fruit. The 
berries are large and the texture better than the Wilson or Down- 
ing. The society is safe in recommending for trial. The season is 
the same as Wilson. 
The meeting adjourned to meet at 7:30 P. M. 
