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medal to the Virginia State Board of Agriculture, represented by Henry 
L. Lyman, Charlottesville, Va., for 335 plates apples, 27 plates pears, 78 
varieties grapes, 5 plates of plums; to Elwanger and Barry, Rochester, 
N. Y., for 112 plates of pears; P. J. Breckmans, Augusta, Ga., 8 varieties 
Japanese persimmons, 1 plate lemonium trifohantum, 2 plates Keiffer 
pears, 1 plate Hawaii pears, 4 varieties prunus japonica, 3 varieties figs: 
Rey. Lyman Phelps, Florida, 8 varieties lemons, 5 varieties limes, 
4 varieties Japanese persimmons, I plate pommela, and an extensive and 
highly instructive collection of citrus hybrids and crosses. 
Bronze medals were awarded to Luther Burbank, California, collection 
of seedling quinces: Chas. H. Hedges, Charlotteville, Va., 78 plates of 
grapes; J. S. Harris, LaCrescent, Minn., 28 varieties of Minnesota apples: 
Wisconsin State Horticulture Society, 39 varieties of apples; Jewell 
Nursery Company, 26 varieties seedling apples; P. S. Dinsmore, River- 
Side, 29 plates of apples; J. W. Potter, Piedmont, Va., 52 varieties of 
apples; J. L. Babcock, Tidewater, Va., 130 plates apples. 
In addition there were several honorable mentions. 
I am so favorably impressed with the importance of the work of this 
great society that I bespeak for it the hearty co-operation of our own 
State Horticultural Society and although advancing age warns me that I. 
cannot much longer hope to meet with them, Minnesota now has one life 
member of the organization. The next meeting of the society will be 
held at Chicago, II1l., in 1893, the exact date not yet fixed, 
The American Pomological Society, may it live and flourish until long 
after every fruit problem has been solved, until the fullest anticipations 
of the prospects are fully realized, and then to use the words of President 
Wilder, ‘‘May the society go on conferring blessings on our country until 
every hearthstone and fireside shall be gladdened with the golden fruits of 
summer and autumn, until the thanksgivingand perfume of the orchard 
Shall ascend together like incense from the altar of every family in the 
broad land, and the whole world realize as in the beginning the blissful 
question of dwelling in the ‘Garden of the Lord’.” 
REPORT OF DELEGATE TO THE SOUTH DAKOTA 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
BY DEWAIN COOK, WINDOM. 
The third annual meeting of the Souta Dakota Horticultural Society 
was held at the city hall in the city of Yankton, on the 9th, 10th and 
11th of December, 1891. 
President H. C. Warner, of Forestburg, opened the meeting on the 
evening of the 9th with his annual address, in which he stated that the 
past year had been one of encouragement to the horticulturist. 
In the southern district there was an abundant crop of fruit. In all 
portions of the central district there was a good crop of small fruit and 
plums and a few apples where trees had reached fruiting age. In the 
northern district the May frost had greatly reduced the fruit crop. He 
also stated that plants and trees had gone into winter quarters in better 
condition than for three years past, and that the prospects of 1892 were 
cheering. 
