Mr. Broderick:  Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen:  Before going away, I would like, as a member of the Manitoba society to express to you my great pleasure at being here and taking part in your excellent meeting.  I had planned for a number of years to come down but circumstances have been such that I have been unable to be here.  I might say that we in Manitoba, about 400 miles north of here, are interested in horticulture as well as you people in Minnesota.  We have a fraternal interest in the work you are doing.  A number of our members, I might say, are members of your society, and we are getting your excellent publication and following the work you are doing.  Our problems up there are very similar to yours, and we feel that you can give us greater information than we can obtain from any other source.  We appreciate the excellent work you are doing, and it has been of great interest to me to see the wide range of subjects you are covering.  I was particularly interested this morning in the session of the plant breeders, as that is a line of work that we feel up in Manitoba has some possibilities for us.  In a horticultural line we are confined very largely to the hardy varieties.  We are working on improving the hardiness of our varieties, and the fruit growing as it is carried on with us very largely in a small way by the farmers and others interested through our province.  We feel, however, that there are possibilities, and we are only too glad to get any information from you as to the work and progress that is being made in the matter of hardy fruits.  We have been endeavoring to improve our native plums.  I have had the station there at Winnipeg, and in connection with one of our nurserymen, Mr. Buchanan, we have been selecting hardy plums for a number of years, and we hope from that stock in crossing with the Japanese plums, as Professor Hansen suggested this morning, to prove that there are possibilities even as far north as Manitoba.  I have heard Mr. Buchanan say on several occasions that he thought the possibilities of plum growing were fairly good in Manitoba.  In small fruits we have possibilities.  The currants and raspberries grow very well.  We have not done so much in strawberries, but I know there are a number of growers in parts of the province that are making some very successful experiments in strawberries, and we hope in a few years to produce strawberries of a fairly good quality.

The President:  How is your wild strawberry?

Mr. Broderick:  I find that the wild strawberry does very well.  We have around Winnipeg, where the college is located, a wild strawberry that does very well, and it is possible that we can do some work on improving the wild strawberry.  We are looking to our hardy native fruits and the hardy importations we are making to establish varieties which are hardy and suited to our conditions.  We are interested also in the work done in tree planting, and I followed with interest the discussion this morning as to windbreak