Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 825 pages of information about Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916.

Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 825 pages of information about Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916.
conditions under which we grow them.  We always cultivate before bloom, cultivate thoroughly.  Before the growth starts we give them a very thorough spraying with lime-sulphur spray; then just before the bloom, just before the blossoms open, as late as we can wait, we use about 1 to 40 or 50 of the lime-sulphur solution, also put in three pounds of arsenate of lead.  Then after the blossoms fall we use the same spray again, perhaps two weeks after that again, and we keep that up for about four times.  We have had abundant crops, and they have been very profitable.

Pres.  Cashman:  I am very glad to know that the Surprise plum has friends in Illinois, and we are also pleased to know that Mr. Street is with us and we hope to hear from him later.  The president of the Wisconsin Horticultural Society, Mr. Rasmussen.

Mr. Rasmussen:  I will say the Surprise plum has given just about the same results with us—­it is the most profitable we have.

Mr. Sauter:  I was over to the Anoka county fair; it was the first part of September, and all the other plums weren’t ripe, all the stuff they had in was green.  But all the Surprise were ripe, so that certainly must be an early ripener.

Mr. Pfeiffer:  Not especially early.

Mr. Hall:  I was certainly glad to hear Mr. Pfeiffer so ably defend the Surprise plum.  The Surprise plum was the only one I got any good from.  The DeSoto, Wolf and Stoddard and all those, the brown rot got them, but the Surprise plum had perfect fruit.  I am surprised that it has a black eye from the society.

Mr. Pfeiffer:  Your location is where?

Mr. Hall:  Sibley County.

Mr. Kellogg:  Thirteen years ago I set out a root graft that made about five feet of growth and just as quick as it got big enough to bear it was loaded with Surprise plums, but since then it hasn’t been worth a cent.

Mr. Miller:  If Mr. Pfeiffer had been in my orchard he could not have given us a better description of it than he did, of the Surprise plum.  I set it out about fifteen years ago.  I think I paid sixty cents for those seedlings, they stood about three and one-half feet.  I never had brown rot in them.  When I set them out I put them with other varieties and set them so the inside ones would fertilize the outside ones.  Afterwards I set these on the east side of the orchard, where they got protection from the west wind.  They have borne almost every year, and this year they are the only ones we had a crop on.

Pres.  Cashman:  I think we get as near to agreeing on this question as on most others.  It is suggested that we find out how many have had success and how many have had failures with the Surprise plum.  All those who have been successful in raising Surprise plums will please raise their hands. (Certain hands raised.) Now, hands down.  Those who have been unsuccessful will please raise their right hands. (Other hands raised.) It seems there were more successes than failures.

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