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Horticultural Hall, Home of the Massachusetts Society. — The 

 secretary had the pleasure of visiting in July the newly erected home 

 belonging to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. This association 

 is not a state horticultural society in exactly the same sense as the 

 Minnesota society, though it does receive aid from the state in the way 

 of some premium money to be offered for certain purposes. The 

 Massachusetts society has a home costing $295,000, on ground costing 

 $225,000, but as they had recently s->ld the site of the original home belonging 

 to the society for a considerable larger amount than the two above named 

 sums combined it was not difficult to make this splendid investment. The 

 building contains a very large exhibit room two stories high, lighted through 

 the roof in part; a magnificent room for the meetings of the society; on the 

 third floor one of the finest libraries the secretary has seen, containing prob- 

 ably the largest assortment of horticultural literature in America; the 

 secretary and treasurer have their offices, and other necessary apparlments are 

 to be found, on that floor also. We did not envy the Massachusetts society 

 but look forward w'ith interest to the time when the Minnesota society can 

 take unto itself also an equally desirable habitation. When and where will 

 that be? 



Death ok H. G. Acklin. — Mr H. G Acklin, of St. Paul, passed away 

 early iu May, the exact date being not now known to the writer. He had 

 been a member of the horticultural society for many years arid while 

 especially interested in beekeeping was also a very regular attendant at the 

 meetings of the horticultural society and a loyal member. He will be 

 especially missed in the beekeepers' association, in the deliberations of which 

 society he occupied a prominent part. 



Death of Jonathan Freeman.— The death of this well known and 

 useful member of our society occurred unexpectedly at Grand Junction, Colo., 

 where Mr. Freeman was temporarily staying. He passed away on July 5th 

 after a brief illness of typhoid fever. Mr, Freeman was a resident of Austin, 

 in this state, F'or some time he officiated as secretary of the Southern Min- 

 nesota Society and laier was elected one of the vice-presidents of the state 

 society, meeting with us at the annual state gathering a number of times. 

 He was v ry much interested in the horticultural development of the state 

 and showed his love for the work in every possible way. We regret that his 

 name is so soon added to the long roll of those who have passed on. We 

 hope to bi able to publish a biography of Mr. Freeman in a later issue. 



Death of O. M. Lord. — Mr Lord passed quietly away to his rewaid on 

 the 2ist of April. His death has been for some time expected, as his health 

 had been failing gradually for a number of years. To the last he maintained 

 his interest in the society and its work as expressed in many ways. His 

 death occurred at his home in Minnesota City, near Winona, on the place 

 where he has passed so many years of his long life of upwards of eighty years 

 and where his experiments in fruit and flower culture were conducted. Mr. 

 Lord's wife dird sometime since, and as the remaining members of his family 

 are widely scattered it is thought likely that the place will go into the hands 

 of strangers, but though we may not continue to receive the results of Mr. 

 Lord's work there, yet what he has accomplished as recorded in our reports 

 is an invaluable contribution to experimental literature in the Northeast. A 

 fuller reference to his decease may be looked for later. 



