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 Are Equal
to Those of Any State - HOrti-
culture Hall VIII Be Filled With
an Abundant Display.
For an exhibition of clear Yankee
grit, carried through nearly half cen
tury of thankless and discouraging ex-
periments, TIE people of Minnesota can
point TO their horticulturists A coun-
try in which fruit could not be grown
would seem long way from home to
people Who were accustomed to living
among orchards anu 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-
dltions We're so different that trees
brought from their old homes usually
died of grief the first winter, and, if
they survived a mild form Of Minnesota
blizzard, We're pretty sure to surren-
der before they We're big enough - 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 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
pies have been exported from the
southern and older portions of the state
and hundreds of bushels of Duchess
and Wealthy apples have been fe d 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 have 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
horticulturists 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 a constant source of
wonder to strangers who come here
with the belief that we are ice-bound
beautiful apples, showing hundreds Of
varieties, the native plrns and their
successors, the De Sotos, the Cheneys
and the Rollingstones, and everything
el liz the way Ct fruit, except bana aas
oranges and pine apples, are evidence
that the short seasons Of the Northwest
are long enough to have sunshine
enough to put quality into the native
fruits, and the delicious flavor is in
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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 great show
in horticultural hall in September are
well under way, and to say that it will
be equal to the best ever made there
is stating it mildly. There has never
been such an interest in horticulture
ard 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 a 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 1t 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 6s-Apples. Open to All-Lot /.
Sweepstakes collection. Open to all compet-
itors and subject to all the regular rules
fruit need not have been grown by the exhib-
tor. I'd. The collection may include any va
rlety, seeding or otherwise, grown in Mime
grower. Printed cares for this purpose will
be furnished on application to the superin-
s sena 1ee@tu 1st R RFsmium s I'd premium SIS;
John W. Thomas & Company's Special
Sweepstakes Premium s100-John w. Thomas
avenue, Minneapolis, offer s1oo as Special
sweepstakes premium, to be pro-rated, ac-
cording to merit, among all Competitors in
the ts,a above 1e competition Glass So, lot y
lection, hybrids and crabs excepted, LIST prem,
SIS: I'd % prem s2o Sd prem, s15 4th prem,
Lot 8. Collection of hybrtds and crabs.
1st prem, IS; I'd prem, 81; Sd prem, So: 4th
prem, 50; 9th prem, 81.
Single Plates
Lot 4. Antinovka, LIST prem, 81; I'd prem,
75c; Sd prem. 5Oc.
Lot 5. Anisim. LIST prem, 81; ID prem, 75c;
Sd prem, SOC.
., Lot s: Arcade, 1st prem, 81; I'd prem, 75c;
Lot Z. Blushed Calvlle LIST prem, 81; I'd
prem, 75c; Sd prem, Soc.
Lot 8. Borovinka, LIST prem, 81; I'd prem,
Zoe; Sd prem, SOC.
Lot 9. Brett list prem, 81; I'd prem. 75c.
Sd prem, SOC.
Lot TO- Charlamoff, Peterson's, list prem.
81; I'd prem, 75c; Sd prem, Soc.
~ Lot IL: Christmas, LIST prem, ST. I'd prem.
Lot t il. Cross els), list prem, 81; I'd prem,
Toe; Sd prem, SOC.
- Lot 10. Fameuse, list prem, 81; ID prem,
Lot a. Giant swaar, LIST prem. 81; I'd
Lot Is. Gilbert, list prem, 81; I'd prem, Toe;
Sd prem, SOC.
Lot 16. Haas, LIST prem, 81; I'd prem. 75c:
Lot II. Kaump, list prem, 81; I'd prem, 75c;
Sd prem, SOC.
Lot 49, Longfeld, LIST prem, 81; I'd prem.
Lot Is. Lubsk Queen, LIST prem, 81: ID
PREM, 75c; Sd prem, &c.
Lot 20: MaeMahon White LIST prem, 81; I'd
prem, Toe; Sd prem, &c.
Lot 81 Malinda, 1st prem, 81; I'd prem,
75c; Sd prem, SOC.
Lot 20 okabena. list prem. 81; I'd prem,
Lot g. ostrelsoff true), list prem, 81; Cd
prem, Use; Sd prem, Soc
Lot "a. Patterns Greening, LIST prem, 81;
I'd prem, 75c; Sd prem, Soc.
Lot %. Peach, 1st PREM 81; I'd prem TIC.
Sd prem. SOC.
Lot 26. Peerless, LIST prem, ST. I'd prem,
75c; Sd prem, 5Oc
Lot 81. Repka Malenka list prem. ST. %