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have spent much time and money with a special view to selecting 

 the hardiest known forms of fruits, shrubs and trees. 



POSTSCRIPT BY THE SECRETARY. 



Here ends the " surplus letters " Prof. Budd speaks of in sending 

 me the materials for these notes and extracts. I have been obliged, 

 for want of space, to cut out much that is interesting and valuable 

 on agriculture and forrestry and everything of horticulture except 

 his reports on fruits, and some parts of these; and there is still a 

 mass of information from his further journeyings that I have not 

 seen, but which will come in due time in the transactions of the 

 Iowa State Horticultural Society, of which he is secretary. Mem- 

 bership in that society is one dollar per year for annual and five 

 dollars for life members. Minnesota students in horticulture can- 

 not do better than to join that society as well as ours and secure 

 its reports. 



In a report on Russian Fruits made to the Montreal Horticult- 

 ural Society, Charles Gibb describes many of the foregoing Russian 

 fruits, and gives their names. The Secretary regrets that it was 

 received too late for publication herewith. 



BOSES IN WASHINGTON, AND HIISTS ABOUT 

 BOSE CULTUBE. 



Dr. Theodore Mead, an amateur rose fancier at Washington, 

 District of Columbia, contributes the following facts about the 

 queen of flowers at the capital, with some additional matters of in- 

 terest in rose culture. 



Washington is getting to be quite a rose-growing community. 

 Mr. Bancroft, the historian, has about four hundred bushes on his 

 place here, and many more in Newport. His is the best collection 

 in the District. One of our professional rosarians has brought out 

 a new rose during the past A'ear, a cross between La France and an 



