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ienced here three years ago, and that without any care, must 

 have some virtue in them, and be worthy of further trial to say 

 the least. 



Your committee next visit the old veteran pomologist, R. L. 

 Cotterell, also of Dover, now considerably past his ''threescore 

 years and ten," with a mind still more vigorous than a boy's on 

 horticultural events, where we put up for the night — knowing 

 as we did that there were too many good things to be seen 

 here for men who love fruit and flowers, to pass upon without 

 devoting some little time to study. Mr. Cotterell had a very fair 

 crop of apples for so dry a season. Small fruit fine, especially 

 his grapes. He makes a grand success with the native plum. 

 He also has the most promising sweet chestnut trees that I know 

 of in Minnesota. He has a seedling from the Haas that bore this 

 year, and appears to be more hardy than Haas, but was in- 

 jured some three years ago; fruit considerably like the parent 

 and keeps about the same. If anyone wishes to know just how 

 to train the Xorway Spruce and other tall growing evergreens 

 for yards of limited extent, he can find the best of '* object 

 lessons" on Mr. CotterelFs grounds. We also saw here what 

 we never saw elsewhere, viz., a genuine Weeping Balsam. Mr. 

 and Mrs. Cotterell are widely known for their boundless hos- 

 pitality, and their happy home is not always so easy to get away 

 from, where one's time is limited as in our own case — but we 

 must push on. We next bring up at the farm residence of John 

 Farrier, of Elmira township. The proprietor was not at home, 

 but Mrs. Farrier- gave us the "liberty of the orchard." The 

 most conspicuous and attractive feature of the orchard was the 

 Wealthy Apple. We found many of the leading varieties of 

 the State here, doing fairly well, and on the south slope of the 

 hill, but the Wealthy was the acknowledged ''boss of all." 

 Whole rows of Wealthy through quite an extensive orchard were 

 literally breaking down with this beautiful fruit, of which Mr. 

 Farrier made an attractive display at the Southern Minnesota 

 Fair. We next bring up at the former residence of our old friend 

 C. H. Greenman, who in 1879 was the honored vice president of 

 the State horticultural society of Wisconsin. Mr. Greenman 

 had left this farm and moved to Chatfield, Minnesota, some years 

 ago, but his "foot prints" still remain there in the shape of a 

 fine Russian orchard (mostly Eussians), fine hedges, etc. One 

 of the largest apple trees on this place and doing remarkably 

 well, was the Peach apple. After visiting this place, we felt 



