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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society for the Year 1883: Embracing the Transactions of the Society From the Close of the Annual Meeting in 1882 to the 7th of March, 1883; Proceedings, Essays, Discussions and Reports First, to encourage the people to plant freely and cultivate intelligently such fruits as are known to be or likely to be success ful in the present conditions of our soil and climate; Second, to stimulate the planting of forests and shelter belts for the amelioration of climate; and, Third, to introduce new varieties by importation from foreign countries, where the summers and winters and other conditions are like our own, and by the systematic production and cross breeding of seedlings from the hardiest and best sorts we now have. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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