The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-18
STATE FRUITS and FLOWERS
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR THEIR
CULTIVATION IN MINNESOTA
Prizes offered by the Agricultural
Society - The North Star State
Produces Apples That Arc Equal
to Those of Any State - HOrti-
culture Hall VIII he Filled With
an Abundant Display.


an Abundant Display.
For an exhibition Of clear Yankee
grit, carried through nearly half a CEN
tury Of thankless and discouraging eX-
periments, the people of Minnesota can
point TO their horticulturists. A coun-
try in which fruit could not be grown
would seem a long way from home to
people who were accustomed to living
among orchards ami vineyards, and
the first luxury the pioneers Of the
Northwest tried to provide for was
homegrown fruit, such as grew in
abundance at their old homes. But con-
dltlonS were so different that trees
brought from their old homes usually
died of grief the first winter, and, if
they survived mild form of Minnesota
blizzard, We're pretty sure to surren-
der before they were big enough 10 bear
fruit. This was discouraging and it
was no wonder that wo:d went out that
this was no fruit country, and that it
was only waste of money and labor
to try to raise an orchard or even small
fruits. But a few men never gave up
the idea that Minnesota could grow
fruit, and these set persistently to
work to find out how. Now there have
been seasons when train loads of ap-
pies have been exported from the
southern and older portions Of the state
and hundreds of bushels of Duchess
ana Wealthy apples have been fed out
to stock because there was no profitable
market for them. Twenty years ago
man who even suggested that Min
nesota might possibly grow apples
enough to supply her own inhabitants
would lave been thought fit subject
for the st. Peter asylum now it would
be hard to find any one who knows
anything about fruit growing who does
not believe that the state will yet ex-
port apples. The record Of persistent
experiment and effort made by pioneer
nortlculturIStS has never been eQualed
IN any state or country, and the whole
people of the Northwest reap the bene-
fit of their hard work and patient
study.
The wonderful exhibitions of home
grown fruit at the great Minnesota
state fairs are constant source Of
wonder to strangers who come here
with the belief that we are ice-bound
most Of the year. The long rows Of
be autiful apples, showing hundreds Of
varieties, the native plunls and their
successors, the De Sotos, the Cheneys
and the Rollingstones, and everything
Ell il the way Ct fruit, except bananas,
oranges and pine apples, are evidence
that the short seasons of the Northwest
SunSn1nG
enough to put quality into the native
fruits, and the delicious flavor is in
special contrast to the staleness Of the
fruits that are grown on the coast,
where soil and climate are reported to
be especially adapted to fruit.
The show Of fruits Is rivaled by the
display Of flowers. No more beautiful
sight can be imagined than the masses
OF flowers Which fill the whole side Of
the immense horticultural hall, and
yet this Is not supposed to be a region
where flowers are at their best.
The preparations for a great show
in horticultural hall in September are
well under way, and to say that 1t will
be equal to the best ever made there
is stating it mildly. There has never
been such an interest in horticulture
and fruit growing before, and farmers
and beginners In fruit growing will be
more in evidence than usual, and the
exhibit, as an object lesson for farm
ers who wish to make start on their
own farms, will be worth more than
usual on that account
All the departments Of the fair for
1888 promise to be fair representation.
of the bountiful, all around harvest Of
the year. but in horticultural hall the
fruit growers expect to make their
show something more than it has ever
been before as an encouragement to
such farmers as have not, up to this
time, believed In the possibility of fruit
growing on their own farms.
The premiums offered are most lib
eral, as the following list will show:
Glass 69-Apples. Open to All-Lot l.
Sweepstakes collection. Open to all compel
with the following notifications: fist The
fruit need not have been grown by the exhib-
itor. I'd. The collection may include any va
riety, Seeding or otherwise, grown In Mime
sofa: 3D. Each plate shown must be plainly
grower yer, Printed Fl cara for this purpose viii
Sd premium. SO. Wv
John W. Thomas & Company's Special
& Co., dry. goods merchants, 5O0-5Os Nicollet
avenue, Minneapolis offer 500 as a special
sweepstakes premium. to be pro-rated, &C
the above competition Glass So, lot y. -
Class 70-Apples. Open to all. Lot g. Col
lection, hybrids and crabs excepted, 1st prem,
s2S; I'd prem, SO; Sd prem. SIS; 4th prem.
Lot g. Collection Of hybrtds and crabs
LIST prem. s; I'd prem. 81; Sd prem. s.; 4th
prem, 81; 9Th prem, 81.
Single Plates
Lot 4. Antneyka, LIST prem, 81; I'd prem
Lot 8. Anisim LIST prem, 81; ID prem, 75c;
Lot 8: Arcade, list prem. ST. I'd prem, 75c;
Sd prem, 50c.
&.
prem, 75c; Sd prem, 5Oc.
Lot 8. Borovinka, LIST prem, 81; I'd PREM
Toe; Sd prem, Soc.
Lot 8. Brett, list prem, 81; I'd prem. 75c:
Sd prem, 50c.
Lot 10. Charlamoff, Peterson's, LIST prem,
81; I'd prem, 75c; Cd prem, Zoe.
IL Lot II: Christmas ssn LIST prem, 81; I'd prem.
Lot T. Cross (41a, LIST prem. 81; I'd prem,
75c; Sd prem, 60c.
Lot 10. Fameuse, list prem, 81; I'd prem,
75c. Sd prem. Doc,
nr Lot 4 &C. Giant 70 t,s swa1E IT, LIST prem, 81 I'd
Lot Is. Gilbert, LIST PREM, ST. I'd prem, 75c;
Lot 1e. Haas, LIST prem, 81; I'd prem, 75c;
., Lot Il. K kaa list prem. 81; I'd prem. 75c;
Lot IS. Longfeld. list prem, 81; I'd prem,
! 75c Sd prem. Soc.
Lot 1S Lubsk Queen, LIST prem, 81; I'd
Lot 20. MacMahon White, list prem, 81; I'd
prem, 75c; Sd prem, 50c.
Lot q. Malinda, LIST prem. 81; I'd prem,
! 75c; Sd prem. Soc.
Lot %. Okabena, list prem, st. I'd prem,
! 75c Sd prem, SOC.
Lot %: ostrekoff ttrue), list prem, 81; 2d
prem, 75c; Sd prem, Soc.
Lot "a. Patterns Greening LIST prem, 81:
I'd prem, TIC; Sd prem, 50c
., Lot e. Beach PEI list PREM 81; I'd prem. Sc;
Lot 26 Peerless, LIST prem, 81; % prem,
| 75c Sd prem, Soc.
Lot e. Rspka Malenka, LIST prem, 81; I'd
prem, 75c; Sd prem, SOC.
Lot %. Rollins Pippin, LIST prem, 81; I'd
Lot g. Rollins Prolific, lst prem, 81; I'd
prem. 75c: Sd PREM SOC.
Lot 81 Talman Sweet, LIST prem, 81; I'd
prem, 75c; Sd prem, 50c.
Lot 3d. Tetofsky list prem, ST.; ID prem,
| Toe; Sd prem, Gee.
Lot SO. Utter, LIST prem. ST. I'd prem, 75c;