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FRUIT EXHIBIT AT OUR NEXT WINTER MEETING.—Did you notice 
the article in reference to this subject on the last page of the July 
Horticulturist? If not, read it at once and put yourself in communi- 
cation with this office. We want to make this a grand exhibit and 
need the co-operation of all the fruit growers to do so. Grapes and 
plums, as well as apples, may be stored for this purpose. Plums 
will keep till then, if packed while hard. 
If not already received, apply tothe secretary for shipping 
tags. 
Arrangements have been made to store fruit with G. A. Dole’s 
cold storage warehouse, 410 Washington Ave. N., Minneapolis. 
NOMENCLATURE.—J. S. Harris is chairman of the committee on 
nomenclature for the Minnesota State Horticultural Society. Heis en- 
gaged in making a “Catalogue and Fruit Album,” of all varieties of 
fruit grown in the Northwest, and would be glad to receive typical 
specimens of seedling apples, native plums and any other new or 
unknown fruits, for examination. Address him at La Crescent,Minn. 
NOTES AT LAKE CITY BY A. J. PHILIPS, SECRETARY,— Friday, 
the 21st, I spent at Lake City on the grounds of the Jewell Nursery 
Co.; here the frost was light compared to many places in Wisconsin. 
Apples, especially Duchess, Wealthy and Okabena are bearing good 
crops; twenty thousand young plum trees in one plai, that have 
grown four feet from the ground this season, are a fine sight. They 
have grown so fast that all have had to be staked. Mr. Underwood 
has found a new plum in northern Minnesota that promises so well 
that I have taken the liberty to call itthe Bonanza. It is the largest 
of wild plums and topworks readily on all plum stocks. Every graft 
they had put in seemed to be growing and very thrifty. If the 
quality is good it will be a valuable acquisition to the plum family. 
Fifteen acres of apple trees for digging the coming fall are on 
their grounds. I am often asked for a variety of apples that will do 
well on sandy land. I always say I know of none, but I found the 
Okabena trees looking very well and bearing heavy on a very sandy 
hillside. This may be a valuable variety on sandy soil if not planted 
too far north. 
Mr. Underwood has done what many other men in Minnesota 
and Wisconsin might do; he has cut off the timber on a high 
hill, some of it too steep to plow, and, digging a place like a ter- 
race for each tree, has planted an orchard. The trees that are of the 
hardy varieties look healthy and a number are bearing this season, 
four years from planting. One hundred and fifty Northwestern 
Greenings are in the lot and look well. It was planted as an experi- 
mental orchard, consequently has too many varieties; one thousand 
Duchess, one thousand McMahon and one thousand Virginia for top- 
working are to be his next planting, which I consider wise. It will 
be some work to get the apples down the hill, but, he says, he will 
risk that if he can only grow them,” 
