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as Red Dutch, a few of which will be sold for the very low price of one dollar each. 

 Buy a few and save making ladders and wlimbing cherry trees. If you are fond of 

 grapes, buy the Niagara, a small plant of which you can get for the trifling sum of 

 two dollars. This is said to be the hardiest white grape grown, and will no doubt 

 prove a bonanza to growers in the mild climate of Minnesota, but is pronounced too 

 tender for the cold winters of Kansas. 



Burely, with humbugs to right of him, with tree peddlers to left of him, with 

 blizzards behind him, and blight, drought and tornadoes in front of him, the lot of 

 the would-be fruit grower of Minnesota is not an enviable one. And when we see 

 the poor farmer made the victim and prey of every kind of monopoly, we should 

 not wonder to see the boys running away from the old farm and seeking the gilded 

 attraciions oi the city. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Harris spoke of the agents of Albaugh as among the class of 

 humbugs mentioned by Mr. Cutler. 



Mr. Underwood. Albaugh told me in Chicago, at the convention of 

 nurserymen, a year ago last June, that he was going to send out par- 

 ties, and sell them just what he wanted to, and furnish them with just 

 what he pleased. 



Mr. Tuttle. I would say I think he has picked up the greatest set 

 of liars on the continent. [Laughter.] 



On motion, the meeting adjourned until 2 o'clock p. m. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



Thursday, January 21, 1886. 



The meeting was called to order at the usual hour by President 

 Smith. 



QUESTION BOX. 



The following question was read : "Has any person been humbugged 

 by Minnesota nurserymen or sellers of nursery stock with head-quar- 

 ters in this State?" 



Mr. Underwood. Mr. President, my impression is that there are a 

 good many who think they have been humbugged by Minnesota nur- 

 serymen. When I heard the question read I felt like saying perhaps 

 no one is a bigger humbug than the man who buys anything, don't 

 take care of it, and blames the nurserymen because it dies. There is 



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