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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



is, about the time that Peter 

 Gideon was starving- to death 

 trying to propagate an apple for 

 this locality, of course, an ap- 

 ple with us was a thing we 

 very seldom enjoyed. I remem- 

 ber going to school in Chanhas- 

 sen in a log schoolhouse, and the 

 two Murray girls were our 

 teachers. I sometimes tell the 

 boys that so they will appreciate 

 the orchard. I have four boys 

 and four orchards set out for 

 them, and if they ever take to 

 that and want to farm there is 

 enough there for the four of 

 them. I was going to say that 

 those Murray girls used to bring 

 an apple with them to school, 

 eastern apples, and several of us 

 boys there at school used to take 

 turns in getting the peelings. I 

 tell you, those peelings were fine 

 to me, and sometimes we got the 

 core. You know I made up my 

 mind I would have an orchard 

 for my boys. And once in a 

 while when you see them, after 

 they have eaten ten or fifteen 

 apples, and they begin to throw 

 away a great deal of the apple, I 

 tell them, "When I was a boy 

 that would have been awful good 

 stuff to me," and they would say : 

 "For heaven's sake, never tell 

 about the peelings." This is the 

 first time I have told anything 

 about the peelings and being 

 glad to get them. 



Now, they say that no class 

 of people disagree among them- 

 selves as much as horticulturists. 



