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that I banked grew better than some trees that | have in the 
same lot that were treated after my usual custom. I think 
that these trees that were boxed made double the usual 
growth, and I think it is a good thing. I believe that if 
people would practice it, at least until their trees got so large 
that the trunks would be shaded by the top, that their or- 
chards would succeed a good deal better. 
Mr. Dartt: I believe that the box will take a great deal of 
labor—lots of it—and that it won’t make trees hardy; that 
when they get up and grow away from the box, the tops of 
them for instance, that the hard winters will kill them just as 
quick as though they had not been boxed. I have no doubt 
but it will be a protection for a season, but you must have the 
hardy tree or else there is no use in bothering with it. 
SUGGESTIONS AND FRUIT REPORT. 
BY M. PEARCE, CHOWEN. 
Mr. President and Members of the State Horticultural Society: 
I am one of the committee on small fruits, alsoon general fruits andam 
expected to say something as vice-president. As they allcoverabout the 
same ground I will group them allin one paper. I am ata loss to know 
how to make a correct report. Could make two reports on the same sub- 
ject and think they would both be right, and as different as good is from 
bad. ‘To illustrate this, take the soil and locations around Lake Minne- 
tonka. They are naturally adapted to growing fruit of nearly all kinds. 
The people around the lake are mostly engaged in growing fruit of some 
kind. There are those that have good crops of all they try to grow, from 
the strawberry up to the apple and peach, while others with soil and lo- 
cation just as good, make perfect failures. These two classes of fruit 
growers are found in all countries. The latter largely predominates in all 
sections, but more particularly in a country where successful fruit grow- 
ing requires the greatest care and attention, such as Minnesota. In our 
common and graded schools, where we have good, honest and conscien- 
tious teachers, and I am pleased to say we have many such, to all dull or 
backward scholars they give extra help between school hours. They 
often become the brightest and best of their classes. 
It is our duty as a state institution of horticultural teachers, to bestow 
the same acts of charity on individuals of the less fortunate masses 
of the agricultural districts. To accomplish this we will make the fol- 
lowing suggestions, and hope the members will see it in thesame light 
and be prompt to act: Take horticulture out of the farmers’ institute— 
