162 ANNUAL REPORT. 
Regretting my inability to attend the meeting at Minneapolis and join im 
the discussions, I remain, 
Yours respectfully, JAS. M. HALL. 
LETTER FROM J. L. BLAIR. 
The Secretary read a communication from Mr. Blair, of St. — 
Charles. The communication was, ordered on file and reads as 
follows: 
Sr. CHARLES, Jan. 21st, 1880. 
Prof. Lacy: 
DEAR Sir :—I received your announcement of the annual meeting of the 
Minnesota State Horticultural Society. I am sorry that 1 cannot attend. 
I should like to know if the Haas apple tree usually blights as soon as it 
commences bearing. I had six young trees that blossomed for the first time 
last spring, three of them dropped their blossoms and remained healthy, the 
other three bore 2,3 and 5 apples and were hurt with blight, all in the 
same rew of trees and treated the same. 
Yours with respect, 
JOHN L. BLAIR. 
Mr. Harris. With my Wealthy and Haas the blight comes in 
as soon as they commence to bear. — 
Mr. Eldridge. This is not my experience. My Haas didn’t 
blight at all while some others did. 
Mr. Harris. <A little blight is a good thing for the Haas. I 
think it gets up pretty quick then. 
LETTER FROM WM. M HENRY. 
The Secretary vead a letter from Wm. McHenty, St. Charles. 
This was ordered on file and reads as follows : 
St. CHarzes, Minn, Jan. 19, 1880. 
Mr.-C. Y. Lacy: ; 
Dear Srr:—I had hoped to be at the Association meeting. Business. 
prevents me, so 1 want to say that my report is very imperfect as you see, 
and figures are small in this section of the country. The late frost killed 
nearly all the fruit at Minnesota City. I found one orchard that produced 
300 bushels of Apples, another, 75 bushels; these were all Red Astrachan, 
Snow and a few Haas. We have a few seedling in this County that have 
never been brought to the notice of your society. We shall watch and 
wait to see the result of this winter. I find some of the tender varieties are 
more or less injured. I have been testing the Henrietta raspberry for the 
past two years. Two years ago I had some very fine samples of berries ; 
last spring they came out all right, had made about two inches growth when 
the late frost took them and killed every bush to the ground, did not get 
