362 ANNUAL KEPORT. 



Countess but I have known them to grow side and side and I find they 

 differ. 



The following paper by Mr. Whipple was then read: 



REPORT ON GARDENING* AND SMALL FRU1T8. 

 Bj' K. H. Whipple, Nortliome, 



I find that I am placed in a bad position for me to fill, that is, to give you a 

 report on Vegetable Gardening alone; being so far back from the large markets of 

 St. Paul and Minneapolis and not knowing but a very little about the vegetable 

 gardens there except the daily report of sales. My garden being altogether differ- 

 ent from those around the cities, where each gurdener selects what he wishes to grow 

 and makes a speciality ot, perhaps from three to six different kinds of vegetables and 

 places his whole time on those; while I have to grow all kinds that I can grow 

 including some varieties that I have not yet seen in the Minneapolis market; also, 

 small fruit such as strawberries, raspberries, currants, gooseberries, &c., or in other 

 words, everything that the summer resident on Lake Minnetonka calls for. 



Vegetable gardens and small fruits generally around the lake were good. 



We had a hard battle with the common enemy of the gardener, known by the 

 name of the cut-worms, they being more numerous last season than ever before 

 known. In spite of all we could do, our earliest planting of beets, parsley, lettuce, 

 raddishes, turnips were all taken, — not one left; and out of 1,500 early cabbage we 

 managed to save between three and four hundred. 



The worms are of two varieties, the old gray worm and the other being nearly 

 black and at least one-third longer, and what seems the most singular they are 

 nearly all full grown when they first appear; they seem to have a general concert of 

 action as a large number make the attack at the same time. Several of the small 

 fruit growers complained of raspberry plants failing to grow; on examination we 

 found the trouble to be the work of the cut- worm and cutting the new shoots 

 about the time they were ready to break the ground, which to the blackcap means 

 ruin, and nearly so to the red. 



Small fruit where not killed back too much last winter gave us a good crop. In 

 red raspberries the Philadelphia, (all things considered,) were the best. Turner's 

 next and Cuthberts last or least, being tender and killing back the worst. 



Doolittle best of the black; Greggs almost a failure on account of winter killing. 



Grapes came out splendidly where they were taken proper care of all around the 

 lake. 



Apples were nearly a failure, trees being so badly injured the past winter that 

 they could not product fruit, excepting that variety which so many orchardists 

 and nurserymen have condemned and had stricken from the list of hard}- fruit, 

 because they at certain times and in certain localities w-ere troubled with the blight, 

 but in spite of all talk, disease and the cold winters which have played such havoc 

 with our orchards, my Transcendents have stood them all for the past twentj'^ years, 

 and last season I could not discover the first blighted leaf in the whole orchard 

 and the trees were well loaded with fruit. The orchard to-day resembles an old- 

 fashioned New England orchard. 



