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Title: Trees, fruits, and flowers of Minnesota
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Subjects: Minnesota State Horticultural Society Gardening Fruit-culture Horticulture
Publisher: Minneapolis : Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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ith the secretary in regard to this, willyou not do so upon reading this and let him know what varieties you have andwhen they can be sent?. He will furnish you full directions for gathering andand packing and shipping the fruit, and a recognition of your contributionswill be made in some suitable way at the proper time. Of course fruit for thispurpose should be extra large of its kind, free from blemish and packed in away to secure its getting there in the best of condition. Dont think from thisthat you havent anything good enough! You have! By selecting the bestfruit from your trees any ope can do something towards this exhibit. If youhave crab apples, dont send them loose, but only on the branch where a goodm lay are clustered to^ethir miking a fitia show. Such a cluster will be verym.i;h appreciated. Wait can you do to halp in this splendid exhibit?It ii bjiag made as you know uadir the auspices of the Horticiltural Society,and all of the members must feel a common interest in it.
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THE MINNESOTA HORTICULTURIST. VOL. 32. OCTOBER, 1904. No. 10. HORTICULTURE AT THE MINNESOTA STATE FAIR, 1904. A. W. LATHAM, SUPT. HORT. The horticultural exhibit in connection with the Minnesota statefair just closed was in some respects the most remarkable evermade in the state. When it is considered that the fair was heldat an unusually early date and that the season for the ripeningof fruit was at least two weeks later than normal, and thatunder usual conditions the fruit displayed is none too ripe, itis apparent that the horticultural department was badly handi-capped in its efforts to make a display up to the usual highstandard. In spite of these unfavorable conditions, however, thatthe display should have been such as to satisfy the manage-ment and the throng of visitors and call forth no adverse com-ment or criticism, is certainly cause for congratulation. It was, ofcourse, anticipated that the fruit display would be a comparativelylight one, as exhibitors are exceedingly loth

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