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them a high price for doing this work. It is better and cheaper 

 to do it ourselves. 



Where plants for winter blooming are wanted, slips should be 

 started in May or June ; pinch them ba-^k at first, as stated before, 

 and repot in September. The rich, black soil of low ground is 

 not usuaUy good for potted plants. If it has been well cultivated, 

 tamed, as it were, and has a large mixture of black saml, it will 

 do much better ; but leaf mold from high lands, mixed with 

 black sand, is much better. This, too, should be cultivated soil, 

 not raw earth from the woods. 



Two papers of much general interest, written by Dr. J. R 

 Renzzly, of La Crosse, were read, which we would have been 

 glad to print in full, but the limited space allowed us and the 

 amount of matter more pertinent to the regular work of the 

 society and better calculated to advance the interests of horti- 

 culture, forbid. 



Mr. Harris said, as the noon hour is near at hand, and the 

 afternoon had been assigned for a visit to the water works, the 

 cemetery and the leading places of interest in the city, he wished 

 to improve this opportunity to present the thanks of the North- 

 W( stern Horticultural Society, and of the citizens of ]^a Crosse, 

 to the members of the State Society, and especially to the ladies 

 •who had taken part in the convention, for the entertainment, 

 social and intellectual, of this occasion. They had read with 

 great interest the papers presented by the ladies at former meet- 

 ings of the State Society as they had been published from year to 

 year in the reports, and were very glad to be able to meet with 

 and to thank them for the pleasure and benefit thus derived. 

 This meeting had been a very pleasant and profitable one to the 

 citizens, and the local society, and its good influence would long 

 be felt. 



Mr. Stickney, in response, said the thanks should come from 

 the other side. It had been a pleasant and profitable time to 

 himself and to the members of the State Society, one which they 

 would long remember with pleasure, on account of the kindness 

 and hospitality with which they had been received. It also added 



