186 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Pres. Underwood: I suggest that Mrs. Stager call this mat- 
ter up at some time when Prof. Green is present. 
Mr. Harris: Speaking about experiment stations, we have 
none too many, and I supposed they had one at St. Cloud that 
was a great benefit to the people there, and I am sorry to learn 
they have none. 
Mr. Dartt: I will say that I have not been able up to the 
present time to send any report to Prof. Green, and I have no 
report written out, but the law requires that I should report in 
person to your society, and I am here, and if there is anything 
in regard to the station you want to know you can put me 
through a course of sprouts, if you not ask me toabuse my 
neighbors or tell too big a lie. I will answer any reasonable 
question. 
Mrs. Kennedy: Iwillask Mr. Dartt if he has any trees to 
sell? 
Mr. Dartt: Yes. 
Mrs. Kennedy: I propose we all buy some of them, because 
we take it for granted they are good. 
Mr. Dartt: I have finally concluded to sell trees on my own 
account. There are trees of hundreds of different varieties, 
and I have concluded to sell them. Ishall not sell them extra 
cheap, but just a fair price, and what money comes in will go 
into the state treasury, so there is not much of an object for 
me to boom anything, or try to sell anything that is no good, 
and Iam not mean enough to run down anything that is good 
to keep anybody else from selling—I do not feel as though I 
were. lam there to find out what fruits are good, and to tell 
all their qualities, good or bad, and that is what I intend to do 
just‘as fast as the information comes. I have a good many 
varieties there; but as yet none of them have borne, and I am 
not prepared to say much about them. We have not had areal 
hard winter since I commenced, and I cannot swear as to the 
hardiness of anything I have got. Some of the Russians ap- 
pear to be more hardy than the Duchess or the Hibernal. I 
may say that in an orchard of 800 trees, probably, composed of 
three hundred varieties, I go through each fall—and I also did 
this last fall—and mark every tree so far as the quality is 
concerned. There is one thing Il have got that I am encour- 
aged in. Ihave three Longworth pear trees. I have had 
them three years. They have made a growth of some three 
to three and a half feet, and they appear to be just as hardy 
as any apple tree I have in the orchard. 
Mr. Brackett: When will they fruit? 
Mr. Dartt: There is some prospect of fruit this year. I 
have never seen any pear trees bearing. If there is any 
other question, anything I know, I will answer. 
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