Secretary's (®ori^er. 



Secretary's Ofeice Ci^osed. — From about July 10th to August 1st this 

 office will be closed, on account of the absence of the secretary. 



Duchess as a Stock. — "Edwin R. Heisze reports that he grafted an old 

 Duchess with Ben Davis some 3'ears ago and these grafts have been bearing 

 for some years, extra fine apples," so says Edson Gaylord, of Nora Springs, la. 



Strawberries That Don't Winter-Kii^l.— "My crossed strawberries 

 are O. K. with no mulching. I hear from several of your Excelsior growers 

 of damage to their strawberries." So w^rites Prof . N. E. Hansen, under date 

 of May 19th. Has he found the strawberry of good quality that will stand the 

 winter without protection? 



The Wealthy in British Columbia. — A communication from the secre- 

 tary of the British Columbia Fruit Growers' Association, says "You will be 

 interested to know that a Minnesota apple, the Wealthy, is one of the most 

 profitable apples we grow. We have a very widely diversified climate as well 

 as soil, but the Wealthy grows everywhere." 



Fruit in [owa.— The June summary of the Iowa fruit growers shows 

 apples 71 per cent, American plums 67 per Cr'nt, and the general average of all 

 kinds of fruit 68 per cent As near as we can judge, from the reports coming 

 into this office, this estimate is not very far from the crop in Minnesota, with 

 perhaps a little decrease in the estimate for apples. 



Summer Meeting of the Wisconsin Horticultural Society.— The 

 secretary of the Wisconsin society is announcing the regular summer meeting 

 of that association at Baraboo, on Aug. 29th, for a single day's session, the 

 general subject of the meeting pertaining to ornamental horticulture. Liberal 

 premiums fur native and cultivated flowers in bloom will be offered. 



Something Nurserymen Must Not Do. — The writer has recently re- 

 ceived a letter frotn a Minnesota nurseryman, on whose letterhead is the fol- 

 lowing: 



"CERTIFICATE OF INSPECTION. 



This is to certify that the stock at the nursery and premises of 



of , Minnesota, has been carefully examined in compliance with law, 



and that it is free from injurious insects and diseases. 



Year 1906. 



(Signed) F. 1,. Washburn." 



A nurseryman who has changed the wording of the inspection certificate 

 and uses it thus changed on his letterhead is, unknowingly probably, break- 

 ing the law, for he has the inspector's name signed to something which he 

 never said. No certificate has been issued which is good for the year 1906. 

 The certificate referred to expires on July 24th, 1906, unless revoked. I am 

 quite sure that the nurseryman in question did not knowingly desire to mis- 

 represent or to render himself liable. At the same time, it is well for nursery- 

 men to bear in mind that the certificate of inspection should be copied exactly 

 as given, and not to changed in any way, — F. L. Washburn. 



