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shown by local growers thereabouts. Mr. 8ias, of Rochester, exhibit- 

 ed some twenty kinds of evergreens. Mr. Soraerville, of Viola,, who 

 exhibited some twenty-seven varieties of apples, and mostly of new 

 Russian sorts, received the larger share of premiums awarded. 



SOME STATISTICS. 



Census reports give the value of orchard products in the United 

 States as follows: 1850, $7,723,186; 1860, $19,991,885; 1870, $47,- 

 335,189, (gold value about $38,000,000); 1880, $50,876,154. For the 

 year 1886, apples, $50,400,000; pears, $14,130,000; peaches, $56,135,- 

 000; grapes, $2,118,900; strawberries, $5,000,000; other fruits, $10,- 

 432,800. 



As indicating the importance of the fruit interest it may be stated 

 that California alone has more than seventy-five thousand acres in 

 vineyards. Seven thousand crates of strawberries, or ten thousand 

 bushels have been received in the New York market in a single day. 

 Between seven and eight million baskets of peaches were grown in 

 Maryland and Delaware in 1875. 



The progress made in fruit culture during the past twenty-five or 

 thirty years has been marked indeed. The exports of apples from this 

 country which were 269,000 barrels in 1861, sixteen years later were 

 2,937,025 barrels. Where a few years ago small plots of ground were 

 occupied in this industry, we find hundreds of acres at the present 

 time. But the demand has kept quite even pace with the supply, and 

 the choicest fruits are no longer considered as luxuries merely but as 

 articles of necessity within the easy reach of all. 



The following statistics are given here, made up from reports of 

 different counties in Minnesota to the Secretary of State : 



Number of apple trees growing in 1886 474, 258 



Number of apple trees bearing in 1886 188,955 



Number of bushels of apples grown in 1886 123,199 



Number of apple trees growing in 1887 478, 742 



Number of apple trees bearing in 1887 160,936 



Number of grape vines bearing in 1886 89, 876 



Number of pounds grapes produced in 1886 206, 200 



Number of grape vines in bearing in 1887 87, 171 



Number of forest trees planted in 1887 on Arbor day 327, 130' 



Number of acres planted during season 3,220 



N umber of rods planted on highways and farms in 1887 522 , 837 



Number of acres forest trees growing in State 47,431 



Without commenting here at length on these statistics it may be 

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