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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

Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science

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

Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science

University of Minnesota

Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science

University of Minnesota

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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University of Minnesota

Cucumber breeding, 1913-1916 Richard Wellington

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University of Minnesota

Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science

University of Minnesota

Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science

University of Minnesota

Prunus hybrids M.J. Dorsey?

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University of Minnesota

Minutes, Board of Regents, June 11, 1913

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University of Minnesota

Hort Student Interns, 1912, Henry Bachman’s, Mpls.

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University of Minnesota

Greenhouse Vegetable Crops, Henry Bachman’s, Mpls., ca.1916

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

University of Minnesota

Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science

University of Minnesota

Students’ House, Sch. of Agr., 1912, Hort.

(4,000 ft2 greenhouse, nursery storage cellar)

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University of Minnesota

Easter Lilies, Lakewood Greenhouses, 1912

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University of Minnesota

Azaleas, Mpls. Floral Co. Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science

University of Minnesota

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

Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science

University of Minnesota

Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science

University of Minnesota

The first assigned readings

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Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science

University of Minnesota

Student assigned papers for discussion

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University of Minnesota

Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science

University of Minnesota

Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science

University of Minnesota

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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University of Minnesota

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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University of Minnesota

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

Dept of Horticultural Science University of Minnesota

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)

Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science

University of Minnesota

Ramsey Co. School Picnic, June 3, 1916

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University of Minnesota

Minneapolis Park Board, 1916

Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science

University of Minnesota

Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science

University of Minnesota

Mpls. Park Board, Chrysanthemum Show, 1916

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University of Minnesota

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

University of Minnesota

Unknown Building & Personnel 1916 (Mpls. Park Board?)

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University of Minnesota

Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science

University of Minnesota

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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University of Minnesota

Election of officers, Fall

1914

Clyde H. Bailey: promoted from Instructor to Ass’t Professor

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University of Minnesota

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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University of Minnesota

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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University of Minnesota

Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science

University of Minnesota

Early photos (1895, 1901) of ID plants

Cactus ‘Live for ever’, 1895

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University of Minnesota

Iris and Barberry, (Cady) ~1916

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University of Minnesota

Other plants for ID, n.d.

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University of Minnesota

Improved Field Daisy, Luther Burbank

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University of Minnesota

Spirea oblongifolia

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University of Minnesota

Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science

University of Minnesota

Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science

University of Minnesota

A.E. potting, 1901 Created by the

Dept of Horticultural Science University of Minnesota

Hedge, Japanese Barberry, 1916

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University of Minnesota

Night blooming Cereus, 1896 Created by the

Dept of Horticultural Science University of Minnesota

Cross sections of the “Pit” hot bed

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University of Minnesota

Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science

University of Minnesota

Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science

University of Minnesota

On Nov. 11, 1915 (55th Meeting)

• The proceedings suddenly were recorded as “HORTICULTURAL CLUB MEETING”, held in the Horticultural Library

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University of Minnesota

Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science

University of Minnesota

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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University of Minnesota

Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science

University of Minnesota

Horticulture Club, Spring Quarter 1948

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University of Minnesota

Horticulture Club, Fall Quarter, 1948

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University of Minnesota

Chrysanthemum breeding

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University of Minnesota

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

Created by the Dept of Horticultural Science

University of Minnesota