260 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The last two wet seasons seem to have given the parting 

 blow to the cherry business, giving the trees the rust to the 

 extent that the last winter finished them. 



There were ten experiment stations represented and their 

 reports were very interesting. As a general thing pears were 

 not a success and cherries were failures, except the Homer, 

 which is a large black morello, which sprouts freely and thus 

 reproduces itself. Plums were good and apples were gener- 

 ally a success. For strawberries, the Senator Dunlap took the 

 lead of all others; besides this were the leading sorts which do 

 well in Nebraska and Iowa. 



woman's auxiliary. 



The Minnesota State Horticultural society makes way for the 

 womenWednesday afternoon and for the State Forestry associa- 

 tion Thursday afternoon, and thus extends a helping hand and a 

 cordial reception to two of its most helpful auxiliaries. 



Dr. Mary S. Uhelston of Minneapolis gave a very interesting 

 address on apples as a healthy diet. Miss Margaret J. Evans 

 gave a genial, sensible and suggestive address on hospitality 

 and the simple life as advocated by Wagner. 



Trimming orchards was discussed with a good deal of vigor. 

 Some advocated pruning any time of the year, but the best in- 

 formed thought June was the proper time for them, as the tree 

 was most active and would heal the soonest. It it well known 

 that the tree understands self-surgery, and if a limb is cut off 

 near the bark this immediately grows over the wound, just as 

 the surgeon makes a flap of flesh cover the bone when he saws 

 off a limb. 



Mrs. N. S. Sawyer of Excelsior, gave an interesting paper on 

 flowers, recommending planting in masses and so arranging a 

 succession as to have blossoms from early spring till the killing 

 frost of autumn. 



While in Minneapolis I received a telegram from Dr. A. T. 

 Peters of the Nebraska University, asking me to secure the 

 services of Prof. Green for one of the leading sessions of our 

 great association week at Lincoln. The professor thinks he 

 can be with us. Most of our scientific men are scholars rather 



