Mower County transcript., 1903-02-25
S. N. HORTICULTURAL. I II
Papers Read Before the Recent rleet-
:: of the S. n. Horticultural
Il n Society at Albert Lea. Il
A Comparison of Past and Future
Interests Of Horticulture In a
Southern r'inn.
L. w. Allen, Spring Valley.

about $4,000 square miles of territory
admitted into the Union in 1858, with
present population of about 2,O00,00(
people. One half century ago supposed
to be only fit for the Indian and buf:
falo to room over, as to latitude de-
grees are reckoned in temperature in
stead of location. It seems to be on
wheels with one great power house at
or near the north pole and at certain
times of the year will so contract its
ligaments as to draw it into 400 OF
500 Fahrenheit below nothingand with
in few months the other great power
house at or near the equator will cause
reaction to bring us into a change
of atmosphere of about 1909 in the
opposite direction. But notwithstand-
ing all this, with the energy and grit of
the inhabitants of more eastern states,
as they travelled westward they found
it's prairies to be the finest, water the
purest, and timber the most excellent,
and climate the, most healthful.
What more could one ask? When
emigrants of the most ambitious and
persevering Of character began to pour
in by thousands and the most fertile
of soils was soon made to blossom as
the rose, even horticulture began to
be prominent and instead of the COM
mon wild fruit only, varieties were soon
introduced from other states, but only
a few seemed to withstand the rigidity
of our winters but those few have
proved themselves to be par excellent
in quality and usefulness. Peter
Gideon has honored the great North
west with one of the greatest of boons
the wealthy apple" named in honor Of
Mrs. Gideon, also another named in
honor Of himself besides many new
varieties of worthy note. -; And the
necessity of fruit has grown so great
that but few farms are to be found
that do not raise their OVID supply or
part of it at least. And at many of
our. railroad stations are annually
shipped thousands Of bushels Of apples
to the great markets of the Northwest.
And in isolated cases we have shipped to
the more eastern markets, and for the
future greater possibilities are looked
for, as the acreage seems to be doub-
ling up annually of the varieties that
are found to Withstand our climate.
New Seeding varieties are constantly
coming into notice. One is sought for
which with certain qualifications the
State Society has offered premium of
$1,000. Some think they have it already
within their grasp. "Some: one will"
. Echo answers-"Who?" As many of
our most prominent horticulturists
have passed into the great beyond,
others are coming up to fill their places.
Will it be with the same honor? The
veritable record of Minnesota to day is,
that no state has made such rapid pro.
gress and advancement in horticulture
as our own beloved state.
So great is the honor Of our boys and
girls born to us in the Gopher" state,
in taking up where we leave off and
bringing our beloved state to the fore
front on horticultural lines. May they
honor their birthright here as much as
the son, of Erin did when he replied to
an American born bragadocio of the
same blood extraction over his birth
right with the acclaim: "Never ye
moind, Pat, OF could have been born in
amerikY had OF been amoined".