182 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The fruit list adopted by the state is all right except there 

 are more varieties we can grow here in this favored corner. We 

 like the Malinda and believe it belongs in the first degree. Many 

 trees in this district over thirty years old and as good as ever. 

 It is surely as hardy as Okabena and not subject to blight. 

 Northwestern Greening is mentioned favorably in all the reports 

 to me. It is all right down here. Delicious I have been grow- 

 ing from root grafts for about eight years, and after last winter 

 think it no hardier than Ben Davis, Fameuse or Golden Russet. 

 Salome is about as hardy as the Wealthy. Patten Greening is in 



The Root River at Preston, delightful parking opportunity. Is it being improved? 



demand when men from the south want apples. It is such a 

 great pie and sauce apple, the tree is so dependable, such a young 

 and prolific bearer of big apples. When the buyer from St. 

 Louis came here last year he asked for one hundred or two hun- 

 dred carloads of "those Patten Greenings." Commercially it 

 belongs right beside the Duchess and Wealthy and will turn out 

 more carloads than either of the very best dessert apples in 

 existence. 



A summary of the reports put to the top Carrie gooseberry, 

 Perfection currant, King and Older raspberries, Dunlap and 

 Warfield strawberries ; Progressive, fall bearing; De Soto,Wyant, 

 Stoddard and Hansen plums, Concord and Worden grapes. In 

 roses the hybrid Rugosas are in favor, being free bloomers all 



