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seedlings or who desires to be better informed as to what is being done in the 

 way of new creations in plant life should secure an opportunity- to read this 

 work. It ought to be in every public librar)- in the state and accessible to all. 

 It is a volume of 368 pages, very handsomely illustrated. It can be purchased 

 of the publishers, The Macmillan Co., 66 Fifth Ave , New York City, for $1.75, 

 handsomely cloth bound. 



Additional Instruction and Experiment in Forestry. — Prof. S. B. 

 Green has prepared a bill which has been introduced in Congress by Rrepre- 

 sentative Davis of Minnesota, and has received approval of Mr. Gifford 

 Pinchot, Chief of the Federal Forestry Service. It provides for an appropria- 

 tion by Congress of $3,5C)() for each state and territory, $1,500 of which is to be 

 used for instruction in the agricultural colleges and |2,0(X) for experiments in 

 forestry in the agricultural and experiment stations. The money is to be used 

 exclusively for instruction and experimentation in forestrj', and the Secretary 

 of Agriculture, by the terms of the bill, has the power to withold the appro- 

 priation from any institution which he thinks is not properly using it. 



It is Prof. Green's idea that a measure of this kind should be made a part 

 of the national forestry policy, and in this he received the hearty endorsement 

 of the convention of delegates of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment 

 Stations that recently met in Washington, as well as of the Ameiican Forestry 

 Congress which m t in Washington one year ago. 



The bill provides that the money used for this purpose shall come from 

 the sale of timber in the forest reserves. It would seem as though no better 

 use could be made of money derived from such source than to use it for the 

 purpose of showing how forests may be perpetuated and made a continual 

 source of wealth for the nation. 



Death of Amasa Stewart. — Word has reached this office from Miss 

 Laura Stewart, of Lamarque, Ttxas, announcing the death of her father, 

 Amasa Stewart, on January 9th, at his home at Lamarque, after an illness of 

 about seven weeks. At the time of his death be was thought to be en his way 

 to recovery but suddenly grew worse and pas.sed quietly away. 



Mr. Stewart was one of the earliest members of this society, having become 

 connected with it in 1868, the second year after it was organized, and the same 

 year with the writer of this. In 1895, Mr. Stewart was made an honorary life 

 member of the society, though this was man}' years subsequent to his removal 

 from the state. He changed his residence to Texas some twent3^-four 3-ears ago. 

 He was one of the pioneer nurserymen of Minnesota, and in honest endeavor to 

 uncover the secrets of success in horticulture he did much to lay securely the 

 foundation of our later advances. The few older members of the society now 

 with us will remenber him well, and the balance will know him as the origi- 

 nator of the Stewart Seedling currant, which has been very gene; ally planted 

 in the Northwest 



Mr. Stewart leaves four children, George Stewart, of Dennison, Texas; 

 Mrs. T. G. Thomas, of Houston, Texas, and Mr. William Stewart and Miss 

 Laura Stewart, of Lamarque, Texas. We revere the memory of this true 

 hearted and most honorable pioneer in Minnesota horticulture. A short 

 biography of Mr. Stewart and portrait will be found on page 129, Report of 

 the Society for 1896. 



