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a committee appointed for the purpose, at our summer meeting, 

 in 1886. Specimens of its fruit were also placed on exhibition at 

 our last summer meeting, and certainly were very large, of fine 

 appearance, and said to be of excellent quality. The stories told 

 of its productiveness on Mr. Kramer's grounds, would seem ex- 

 travagant if true — at the rate of about eight hundred bushels to 

 the acre. He has another seedling of nearly equal merit called 

 "Kramer's Seedling No. 2." He has experimented over twenty 

 years, and has at last succeeded in bringing out these candidates 

 for public favor. 



SEEDLING GRAPES. 



Some of our enterprising grape growers have met with good 

 results in their experiments with new varieties. By careful 

 tests, conducted in some instances for mauy years, they have 

 originated quite a list, a few of which seem worthy of propaga- 

 tion, or at least of general trial. 



Among those who have been engaged most actively in this en- 

 terprise we mention Chas. Luedloff, of Carver, and E. Knap- 

 heide, of Eamsey county. 



Messrs. Latham, Gould and Stubbs, of Hennepin county, J. 

 Norquist, of Eed Wing, Messrs. Harris, Schaller and Kluss, of 

 Houston county, and many others that might be named, have 

 each and all demonstrated very thoroughly that grape growing 

 is an industry that may be prosecuted quite successfully in Minne- 

 sota and with a fair amount of profit. 



That fine varieties of grapes are annually produced is certain, 

 and numerous awards have been secured at different times which 

 indicate superior merit, as at the Exposition at JSTew Orleans, 

 and elsewhere. It is most gratifying, too, to note that the in- 

 dustry is rapidly upon the increase throughout the state. 



OUR NATIVE PLUMS. 



Of what has been accomplished in the propagation of seedling 

 strawberries and grapes, may be asserted with equal force con- 

 cerning native plums; that is to say, that in their cultivation 

 there has been gratifying progress made. 



O. M. Lord, of Minnesota City, is quite a specialist in this di- 

 rection, and justly is regarded as good authority on the subject. 

 He has exj)erimented largely and made the question one of 

 thought and study, and has upon his grounds mauy leading 

 kinds of seedlings as well as cultivated sorts, that have become 



