320 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Store Fruit for the Winter Meeting. — Varieties of apples that 

 could not otherwise be kept for exhibition at the annual meeting of this so- 

 ciety, to be held the first week in December, should be placed in cold storage. 

 Specimens for this purpose should be selected, handled and packed with great 

 care, choosing those that are quite fully matured and thoroughly colored but 

 have not begun to soften. Send to the secretary for shipping tags to be used 

 for this purpose. Arrangements have been made for storing this fruit with 

 A. Booth & Co., of Minneapolis, as for a number of years past. Do not 

 rely upon fruit shown at the state fair for the exhibit at the winter meeting, 

 but gather fresh specimens from the trees and pack and store for this specific 

 purpose, to insure having the choicest specimens in perfect condition. 



Horticulture in "Farm, Stock and Home."— Mr. G. W. Strand, hav- 

 ing filled the place of horticultural editor in "Farm, Stock and Home" for 

 the past three years, since the death of the late John S. Harris, has been com- 

 pelled, by the pressure of other business affairs, to resign this position, which 

 he has filled with satisfaction to the management and large benefit to the 

 readers of the journal. He is succeeded by Mr. Frank Yahnke, of Winona, 

 for two years now the lecturer on horticulture at the Farmers' Institute, and 

 eminently well qualified both by experience and natural ability as a worthy 

 successor to those who have preceded him. Mr. Yahnke has devoted his life 

 to the growing of fruits, and it is fitting that he should give his later years to 

 the instruction of others along these lines. Mr. Yahnke is a member of the 

 executive board of the State Horticultural Society and held in high esteem by 

 all who know him. 



Suggestions to Exhibitors of Fruit at the State Fair. — The article 

 under this title appearing in this number was prepared two years since for 

 the benefit of exhibitors at the Minnesota state fair and has been sent out at 

 two diiferent times to the exhibitors. As the writer is no longer connected 

 with the management of the horticultural department of the state fair, it has 

 seemed to him wise to embody in this permanent form the result of his observa- 

 tions and experience in connection with the exhibit of fruits for the benefit of 

 those who are now exhibitors or may hereafter become such. He is confident 

 that a close following of the directions here given would lessen the labor con- 

 nected with the preparation and care of an exhibit and increase equally the 

 chances of succeess in securing premiums. They are the summing up of an ex- 

 perience of fifteen yeaiS as a successful exhibitor and for nearly that period 

 in connection with the management of the department. 



Seedling Exhibit for American Pomological Society. — The 

 American Pomological Society having postponed the date of its meeting at 

 Kansas City to September 19-21, it becomes practicable for this society to 

 make a display of seedling apples on that occasion, if it is the pleasure of the 

 members to do this. All growers of valuable or interesting varieties or col- 

 lections of varieties of seedling apples are requested to write the secretary at 

 once, expressing their views as to the advisability of making such an exhibit 

 and as to their willingness to contribute a display of seedling apples 

 from their orchards for this purpose. We ought to be able to outdo the exhibit 

 made at Boston two years ago before this same association, which brought 

 Minnesota and our society so prominently before the notice of the country as 

 growing succesfully valuable new fruits. 



Please address the secretary without delay as to this matter, the time 

 being short to make necessary preparation. 



