nable 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 impo