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Our 100 Years of Seminars (Jan. 13, 1913 - 2013):
Honoring the Centennial and the Early Years
Neil Anderson, Associate Professor
Floriculture
Photos of Seminar Book: Echo Martin Glass Plate Development: Neil Anderson
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University of Minnesota
LeRoy Cady, Acting Chairman, 1910-1913 -He also taught floriculture, ornamental Horticulture classes -He died in 1923 (age 44) of pneumonia while preparing a State Fair floral show -1913-1919: dept. administered by a Committee of: W.G. Brierley, LeRoy Cady, M.J. Dorsey, Richard Wellington
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Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science
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Famous apple
growers
Dept. Chair
Student Ass’t.
-M.J. Dorsey, Assoc. Prof, Fruit breeding -W.G. Brierley, Fruit Physiology -Richard Wellington, Vegetable Breeding (included potatoes) -R.S.. Mackintosh, Extension Horticulturist
Hired in 1916 as an Instructor to teach general horticulture
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Cucumber breeding, 1913-1916 Richard Wellington
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Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science
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Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science
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Prunus hybrids M.J. Dorsey?
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Minutes, Board of Regents, June 11, 1913
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Hort Student Interns, 1912, Henry Bachman’s, Mpls.
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Greenhouse Vegetable Crops, Henry Bachman’s, Mpls., ca.1916
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Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science
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Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science
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Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science
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Students’ House, Sch. of Agr., 1912, Hort.
(4,000 ft2 greenhouse, nursery storage cellar)
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Easter Lilies, Lakewood Greenhouses, 1912
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Azaleas, Mpls. Floral Co. Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science
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Beginning seminar format
• Weekly meetings • Every Monday evening, 7:00 o’clock p.m. in the
Hort. Office • 1st Monday in October – 1st Monday in May each
year • Fruit taste testing each week (Prof. Cady)! • As late as 1999, the Monday evening seminar
continued (for graduate seminars/discussions) • At some point in time, the main departmental
seminar shifted to Wednesday afternoons
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University of Minnesota
Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science
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The first assigned readings
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Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science
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Student assigned papers for discussion
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Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science
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Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science
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University regents Minutes, 1913
Salary raise
for Chas. Haralson
The Haralson apple was introduced by the Minnesota Horticulture Research Center in 1922. It is named after Charles Haralson, superintendent of the University of Minnesota Fruit Breeding Farm.
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Additional spring 1913 seminar topics
Date Topic Fruit tasted
Mar. 3 (6th) Improvement of potatoes McIntosh Red Apple
Mar. 10 Cranberries Gano Apple
Mar. 31 Bud selection Grape fruit, Citrus pomelanus*, Round Fruited or Pomelos
Apr. 7 Orchard heating – Frost injury (Ralph Peterson) Spitzenburg ?)
Apr. 14 Crown Gall Figs
Apr. 21 Injury caused by Spraying [not legible]
Apr. 28 Chemistry of Lime sulphur Oranges
May 5 Sterility in Grapes (Mr. M.J. Dorsey) Pineapple
May 12 (14th)
Marketing Bananas & cream & [not legible]
*now C. x paradisi
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Spring 1913: Diversity check!
• Attendees: 100% Caucasian males • -although there were female students! … e.g.,
Miss Anna M. Strud, won the Gideon Memorial Contest Prize for her essay: “The Farm Beautiful”*
• 50% of the seminar topics: fruit • ~45% of the fruit taste tested: apples
*see: (1913) Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society, XLI:413-420. Created by the
Dept of Horticultural Science University of Minnesota
Student Greenhouse Crops ~1916
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Fall quarter, 1913
Ass’t Prof.*
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The first elected seminar
committee, Oct. 6, 1913 100 Year Later (2013): Dr. Neil Anderson (Chair), Dr. Vince Fritz, Dr. Gary Gardner, Dr. Jeff Gillman Mr. Soon Li Teh
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Seminar date
Topic Fruit taste tested
Oct. 13 (16th)
Gross morphology of the apple Wealthy apple
Oct. 20 The pollination of pear flowers Kieffer Pear
Oct. 27 Pollination of the apple Winesap apple
Nov. 3 Pollination & sterility in Grapes Tokay Grapes
Nov. 10 Parthenocarpy in Fruits Oranges
Nov. 17 Spray injuries [from arsenic, Bordeaux, lime-sulphur, Cu]
Beurre Bosc – Pear
Nov. 24 Spray Injuries Yellow Bellflower Apple
Dec. 1 An account of the {…} Div. Society & Society of Hort. Science {…} By Prof. Brierley
Florida Oranges
Dec. 8 A discussion and review of the Minnesota Horticultural Society Meeting
Japanese Persimmon. Diospyros kaki
Dec. 15 Fruit Rot and Scalds in Storage Delaware Red Apple, Delaware Red Winter. Lauver Idaho Created by the
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Minnesota State Horticultural Society
• Housed in the Hort. Building • Moved with the department into the new
building (1970) and remained in Alderman Hall until the late 1980s
• Held numerous events on campus…
Interior Gym (St. Paul campus), MN Hort Society Show, June 3, 1916 (chrysanthemums)
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Ramsey Co. School Picnic, June 3, 1916
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Minneapolis Park Board, 1916
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Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science
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Mpls. Park Board, Chrysanthemum Show, 1916
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Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science
University of Minnesota
Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science
University of Minnesota
Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science
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Unknown Building & Personnel 1916 (Mpls. Park Board?)
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Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science
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Election of Officers,
1913-1914
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The second year, Spring 1914 Date No.
People Topic Fruit Taste Tested
Jan 12 17 The Factors Influencing Keeping Quality of Fruits in Storage Tangerine (Mandarin oranges, Kid-glove oranges) (Citrus nobilis)
Jan 19 11 The Baldwin Spot (M. Derney Valleau), The Pre-Cooling of Fruit (Mr. F.P. Daniels), Observations on Western Fruit Growing (Mr. William Farmquist)
Jonathan (Missouri)
Feb 9 11 Making an Aquatic Garden* Aesopus spitzenburg (Hood River)
Feb 16 7 Marketing, discussions Oranges
Feb 23 15 Commercial nuts in United States Nuts. Hickory, Hazel, Butternuts, Black walnut, horse Chestnut, Pecan, Walnut (English), Almond, Filberts, Buckeye
Mar 2 24** Market Problems, by Levi Longfellow Winesap apple
Mar 9 11 Culture of Ericaceous Fruits, Part I (Blueberry, Cranberry) Winesap apple
Mar 16 12 Cranberry Culture Winter Banana Apple
Mar 23 8 Little known fruit crops of the U.S. Spitzenburg Apple
Mar 30 14 The Certification of Seed Potatoes Barry Pear (Cal. Grown)
Apr 6 4 Culture & Breeding of tomatoes Naval Oranges
May 4 3 Principles and practice of cider making Winesap apple
**Two women present
* see: Bunn, C.W. 1913. A water garden for Minnesota. Trans. MN. State Hort. Soc. XLI:222-223.
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Election of officers, Fall
1914
Clyde H. Bailey: promoted from Instructor to Ass’t Professor
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Fall 1914 Date No.
People Topic Fruit Tasted
Oct 5 7 A general discussion and review of horticultural topics…of interest
Grape – Malagat
Oct 14 7 The origin & development of horticultural plants: The beginnings of horticulture
Jonathan apples
Oct 28 3 The horticultural literature of the Romans
Kieffer pears & Tokas grapes
Nov 11 6 The horticultural literature of the French and early English
Baldwin apple
Dec 9 [no records]
Dec 16 6 The early history & development of the Strawberry
Spitzenburg
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1915
• 44th – 57th meetings were held: Jan. 13 – Dec. 16, 1915
• Topic of Teaching: --Systems of horticultural instruction (Feb 24) --Curriculum (Apr 14, Apr 28, May 2 or 3)
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Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science
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Early photos (1895, 1901) of ID plants
Cactus ‘Live for ever’, 1895
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Iris and Barberry, (Cady) ~1916
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Other plants for ID, n.d.
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Improved Field Daisy, Luther Burbank
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Spirea oblongifolia
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Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science
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Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science
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A.E. potting, 1901 Created by the
Dept of Horticultural Science University of Minnesota
Hedge, Japanese Barberry, 1916
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Night blooming Cereus, 1896 Created by the
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Cross sections of the “Pit” hot bed
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Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science
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Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science
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On Nov. 11, 1915 (55th Meeting)
• The proceedings suddenly were recorded as “HORTICULTURAL CLUB MEETING”, held in the Horticultural Library
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1916 -
• Most records missing • By 1938, extensive seminar listing for the
entire quarter was posted with many famous speakers (Alderman, Hutchins, Krantz)
• Mar. 2, 1938: attendance swelled to 25 people!
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Horticulture Club, Spring Quarter 1948
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Horticulture Club, Fall Quarter, 1948
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Chrysanthemum breeding
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L.E. Longley, 1939
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How many seminars, 1913-2013? • 1913 – 1915: 57 [mean of 19/yr; quarters] • 1916 – Spring 1999: 1,596 [quarters] • Sept. 1999 – Spring 2013: 420 [30/yr; semesters] • 2,073 (est.) TOTAL WEEKLY SEMINARS IN 100 YEARS!
A CENTURY OF HORTICULTURAL WISDOM SHARED
• At some point in time: two seminars/wk: Mondays evenings,
Wednesday afternoons (n.d. – 1999 only); weekly seminars (Wed. only) resumed 1999 - 2013
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University of Minnesota