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Wealthy; so much so that but two trees on my place will bear this year. 

 The old varieties which p^'oduce such fine fruit, which I used to ex- 

 hibit at our fairs are practically dead, and it don't seem possible that 

 they can recover. I have had some Russian varieties a short time and 

 have four or five that are not injured to any serious extent. The 

 Duchess is not seriously injured; last year's growth was killed back some 

 two inches. I am not, however, entirely discouraged; as soon as I 

 found out the injury that had been done to my trees I resolved to go 

 on again, and I shall continue my efforts in trying to grow apples in 

 Minnesota. The very difiSculties we have to contend with are going 

 to help us the sooner to get a hardy variety. We have met with re- 

 verses, and every time it seems to be worse. But I tell you we are 

 going to raise our own fruit, and have enough and to spare; we are 

 going to find Russian varieties, I think, that are hard}- ; we may not 

 find them adapted to all seasons of the year and every portion of the 

 State; but, we are going to keep planting until we get what we are 

 looking for. 



Small fruits in our part of the State are doing well, especially 

 strawberries and grapes. Raspberries in places were killed down to 

 the snow line, which means ordinarily, within three inches of the 

 ground. Blackberries were also killed that were not protected. Ev. 

 ery thing seems to be favorable for fruit. I find much interest mani- 

 fested among those who have been growing fruit long enough to raise 

 it and the}'^ are replanting and carrying on the good work. I saw one 

 man who had been growing trees for twenty-five years who wanted to 

 buy some trees and when I showed him the dead trees, he said he 

 should plant more of them and keep on trying. That seems to be the 

 feeling among the members of our Society, and to my mind it indicates 

 that we are doing a good work. 



Mr. Fuller. The Transcendents which some persons have been try- 

 ing to drive from our State are about the only trees that stand unin. 

 jured in our section, north of the Big Woods; that stands very well. 

 The wood is colored a little as is nearly every fruit tree in Minnesota; 

 but it looks healthy. Usually the trees hang full of fruit. Next to 

 the Transcendent in hardiness is the Orange: Minnesota and Beachs 

 Sweet stand pretty well. Hutchinson's Sweet as a tree is hardy but 

 does not bear any apples and I dug up the last of mine this spring. 

 Whitney's No. 20 is hurt some but not very badly. I received about 

 twent}' Russian varieties a year ago from Professer Badd. A part of 

 them killed to the ground and a part of them stand. I have a seedling 



