476 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
WEDNESDAY MORNING. 
The first number taken up was a deferred report of the com- 
mittee on seedling fruits by J. S. Harris, of La Crescent. (See 
index. ) 
Pres. Underwood: We will now listen to atopic that was 
passed over last evening: ‘* Horticultural Frauds,” by Mr. E. 
H. 8S. Dartt. (See index.) 
On motion of Clarence Wedge, the president was authorized 
to appoint a committee of three to prepare a law to prevent 
fraud in the sale of nursery stock, to be referred to the execu- 
tive committee for their approval and then to the legislative 
committee to urge its passage. 
Pres. Underwood appointed as such committee Mr. Clarence 
Wedge, Mr. L. R. Moyer and Mr. A. H. Brackett. 
Pres. Underwood: I will say that Mr. S. W. Ferris has been 
appointed as delegate to our society from the Northeastern 
Iowa Horticultural Society. He is with us now, and we have 
had the pleasure of listening to him. Ifhe has any remarks to 
make to the society at this time, we shall be glad to listen to 
him for a few moments. 
Mr. Ferris (of Iowa): Mr. President, I do not wish to occupy your 
valuable time, because I think there are many others here who are 
more competent to entertain and instruct you than Iam. Itisa 
great pleasure to me to meet with horticulturists. I put in the best 
part of my life in that line, and my only sorrow is that I have not 
made a greater success of it. A year ago last fall there were some 
three hundred cars of apples shipped from our county, shipped from 
the part of the county I live in, mostly from three stations. There 
was no crop grown that turned me in as good results as the Duchess 
and Wealthy. Thereis no tree that bore so well with me as the Har- 
ry Kaump. Itis comparatively a new variety, and I have always 
made it a practice to go slow on everything until it is thoroughly 
tested. I think it is worthy of trial in our section. The Minnesota 
bore us an immense crop this year, and I think it is worth propa- 
gating. With some of the Russian family I must say we have not 
met with the grand success we had anticipated. Prof. Budd claim- 
ed to have one hundred varieties better than the Duchess, but Ihave 
not found it so. I have one acre of Duchess that has netted me $500 
in the last three years,and if I had set out all Duchess trees I would 
have been able to pay my debts, at least. 
In our state we feel much encouraged in horticulture; we have 
new things coming on of which we have great hopes. I believe in 
the plan of going slow on new varieties. We still have some hopes 
of Patten’s Greening and are planting some yet. I do not know as 
much about it as I do of the Duchess. I have a large lot of four 
year old trees to sell. Ido not believe in taking anew thing and 
putting it out extensively, because in my experience in ninety-nine 
