172 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



DISCUSSION. 



Geo. J. Kellogg: What has been done in the cultivation of 

 the strawberry'? Has it been a success? 



Prof. Waldron: Yes, sir; it has been a success. One man 

 has grown them for years. I do not know in what quantity 

 they are grown, but they send to Minneapolis for their straw 

 berries. 



C. L. Smith: Currants do just as well at Fargo as at Min- 

 neapolis; in fact, if there is any difference it is rather in favor 

 of the Red River valley than of Minneapolis. Strawberries as 

 a rule do not do so well. The difficulty has been the new soil 

 is too light and too loose, and they are severely affected by 

 those hot winds that come in July. At one place where they 

 used slough hay to mulch the plants as soon as they were set 

 out in the spring they did better than by any other process 

 that had been tried. Set plants in the spring and mulch heav- 

 ily as soon as set out. At Jamestown and Steele and one or 

 two other places out there they have been quite successful. 



Dr. Frisselle: I have a little acquaintance in the Red River 

 valley. I have a daughter living there. Last year I was there 

 in August. She was just then getting a few red raspberries 

 from her bushes after the middle of August, and the currants 

 in her garden did well; she had plenty of them; but the trouble 

 there is that in the spring of the year there is a strong wind 

 that blows and blows and does great injury to all young plants 

 and absorbs the moisture, and they cannot do well unless 

 mulched. 



FRUIT GROWING IN LINCOLN COUNTY. 

 By W. J. Wickersheim, Idlewild, Minn. 



My father's orchard consists of about 75 trees of Duchess, Wealthy, 

 Tetofsky, Early Strawberry, Prices, Winter Sweet Beachs Sweet, Meaders 

 Winter and a few other crabs and a variety of winter hybrids. 



The orchard is situated in the central part of the county on a high 

 rolling prairie. The site slopes toward the north and west. It is pro- 

 tected on the south side by a'young grove of cottonwood, ash, box elder, 

 choke cherry and wild plum, and on the remaining sides, with the ex- 

 ception of a narrow opening on the southeast, there is a hedge of cotton- 

 woods and white and gray willows. The soil is a black sandy loam 20 to 

 36 inches deep over a clay subsoil. 



The trees were planted nine years ago, two dozen being from four to 

 five feet tall and the remaining one year old transplanted trees. 



Crops of corn, beans, tomatoes, cabbages, Jraspberries, gooseberries, cur- 

 rants and strawberries are grown in the orchard every year. 



