Il8 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



in growing Duchess for the market, there being always a market 

 for this fruit, owing to the fact that apples are not shipped in from 

 other states in the season of the Duchess. 



A good deal of time was devoted to a discussion of the subject 

 "The Future of the Southern Minnesota Horticultural Society." It 

 was on all sides conceded that the usefulness of the society could 

 be very materially increased if we had some funds with which to 

 carry on the work over and above what we now have, and it was 

 decided to lay the matter before the executive committee of the 

 state society at its next meeting. 



Some of the visitors to the meeting were A. J. Philips, Wiscon- 

 sin ; A. E. Bentz, C. F; Gardner, C. G. Patten, H. G. Patten, of 

 Iowa; and S. D. Richardson, of Winnebago City. 



Officers were dected as follows : 



President, A. W. Masse, Albert Lea. 



Secretary and treasurer, F. W. Kimball, Austin. 



Vice presidents, P. Clausen, Albert Lea ; J. C. Hawkins, Austin ; 

 O. W. Moore, Spring Valley. 



The next annual meeting will be held in Albert Lea in January, 

 1906. 



$100,000 TO THE Originator of New Fruits and Flowers. — Lutb. 

 er Burbank, the famousagriculturist of California, has been awarded $100,000 

 by the Carnegie Institute for his successful work in scientific agricultural ex- 

 periments. It will be paid to him in ten annual installments, to enable him 

 to give up all other interests and devote himself to further agriculturals cience. 



Experimental Plants from the South Dakota Station.— Prof . 

 N. E. Hansen, horticulturist at the South Dakota Experiment Station, in a 

 recent letter speaks of a large assortment of plants for experimental purposes 

 that have been raised there and are now ready for distribution. They include 

 many varieties of fruits and also ornamentals. He speaks especially of the 

 Siberian Sand Thorn, valuable for its fruits, aud Niobe Weeping Willow, both 

 of Siberian origin. Those of our readers who are interested in this experi- 

 mental work and desire to take part in it would do well to send to Prof. N. E- 

 Hansen, Brookings, S. D., for a full list of the stock referred to. 



Valuable Premium Books for Our Members.— An exceedingly 

 valuable list of books on practical horticultute is offered to cur membership 

 on the little pink folder, sent in connection with the membership ticket. This 

 list contains all the works on horticulture issued by Prof. Samuel B. Green, of 

 our state experiment station, and a number of smilar works by Prof. L- H. 

 Bailey, Cornell University, New York, and by other well known authors. These 

 books can be purchased at the price mentioned, sent postpaid, or be had with- 

 out expense by securing new members for the horticultural society. We prefer 

 the latter method as in that way we reach more people with the society litera- 

 ture, and that is one of the most important features of our work. Every mem- 

 ber interested in these subjects should secure one or more of these books annu- 

 ally to add to his library. 



