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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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were discussed in a lively way. The newsociety starts out under the most favorable auspices, and with the push of Prof-Waldron behind it is likely to prove a great success. To Prof. Waldron be-longs almost entirely, we judge, the credit of working up this organization,and we extend to him in this success our hearty congratulations. How THE Worlds Fair Lawn is Grown.—The seed selected wasblue grass and rye grass, mixed in eciual parts. The rye grass was first inevidence, but it has done the work that was required of it and has passed away.The visitor will never know it existed, unless he makes inquiries and learnsthat the blue grass is indebted for much of its beauty to its less known brother,the rye grass. The rye grass peeps up in six or seven days and is a nurse cropfor the blue grass. It grows taller and shields the blue grass from the sun.It is a perennial, and as it is not permitted to go to seed on a well regulatedlawn it dies out and leaves the blue grass alone on the field.
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THE MINNESOTA HORTICULTURIST. VOL. 32. MARCH, 1904. No. 3. Yice-)presidei^ts );^eports^1903. VICE-PRESIDENTS REPORT, FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. FRANK YAIINKE,, WINONA. In the method of getting the best and most information onhorticultural work in our district, I have followed somewhat theplan of my predecessor, Mr. Freeman. I sent out about forty-five circular letters, asking eight questions,to which the following replies were received: Question I. What is the average per cent, of increase in thepurchase of fruit trees and plants in your locality? Answer: About 20 per cent: The poorest increase was in thesouthwestern part, on account of poor crops. Question 2. What six varieties of apples for the last five yearshave proved the most valuable? I give all varieties mentioned in and under this question, so takeyour choice: Duchess, Tetofsky, Longfield, Lowland Raspberry.Wealthy, Pattens Greening, Borovinka, Yellow Transparent, North-west Greening, Malinda, Peerless, Plumbs Cider, Hiber

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