STATE HORTICULTUKAL SOCIETY. ' 339 



EANTRY STORES. 



PREMIDM. AM'T. 



Best display canned fruit, "William Lyons, Minneapolis, - First $3 00 



Best display canned fruit, E. M.'Chandler, Minnehaha, - - Second 2 00 



Display Jellies, W. H Briinhall, St. Paul, - . . _ First 2 00 



Display Jellies, Wm Lyons, Minneapolis, - . _ . Second 1 00 



Mixed Pickles, W. H. Brimhall, St. Paul, - - . . First i OO 



Mixed Pickles, William Lyons, Minneapolis, - - . . Second 50 



Home-made maple vinegar, Knight H. Whipple, Northome, - First 1 00 



Home-made maple vinegar, J. J. Cale, Miunetonka, - - Second 50 



Dried apple sauce, Mrs. M. A. Pearce, Minneapolis, - - Special 1 00 



WORKS OF ART. 



PREMTIDM. AM'T. 



Collection Paintings, Mrs. J. T. Grimes, . . . _ First j oo 



Seedling strawberry, J. W. Jenkins, Champlin, - - Special $2 00 



Gregg Raspberries, J. W. Jenkins, Champlin, - - - Special 1 00 



Currants two varieties, J. W. Jenkins, Champlain, - - Special 1 00 



We recommend a special premium of five dollars on collection of apples entered 

 by Geo. J. Kellogg, of Wisconsin. 



Also, special premiums as indicated in report. (Signed) 



M. J. HOAQ, 



W. E. Brimhall, 

 F. G. Gould, 



Committee. 



CRANBERRY CULTURE. 



Mr. Tuttle. Mr. President, I would like to speak of one kind of 

 fruit that has not thus far been mentioned. I understand there are 

 facilities for growing it somewhat extensively in Minnesota. I refer 

 to cranberries. It is not really necessary that a man should have a 

 marsh in order to grow cranberries; if you have a flat, or level piece 

 of sandy land, so situated that you can keep the ground moist by 

 allowing a stream of water to flow over it, enough to moisten the soil, 

 you can grow cranberries with success. Some have supposed that it 

 was necessary to have a marsh to raise cranberries, but it is a fact that 

 one of the most successful cranberry plantations in Wisconsin is on a 

 very poor piece of sandy land, where they were accustomed formerly 

 to grow buckwheat. The plants require to be covered in winter with 

 water, but in the growing season sufficient water is required simply to 

 keep the ground moist. There is a plantation of some fourteen acres 

 in our state that I have referred to where they grow eight or nine 

 hundred bushels of cranberries to a single crop. 



