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Excerpt from Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society: Proceedings, Essays and Reports at the Annual Winter Meeting, Held at Minneapolis, January 20-23, 1874, and Correspondence and Reports Upon the Effects of the Winter of 1872-3 on Fruit Trees in Minnesota Of the value of this volume it ma not be proper for me to speak. It Speaks for itself to tel you that the society is steadily growing in numbers, influence and power for good. This volume contains a number of addresses and essays of great value, and the correspondence and re rts are in my Opinion one of its best features. The lists 0 fruits adopted for cultivation are very com lete, and fully equal - quality and hardiness to rule - to t 0 lists recommended by our neighbors of the Wisconsin Society. 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.