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experiment of working the Pyrus malus on the Pyrus baccata 

 stock should be extensively tried by Minnesota fruit growers. There 

 seems to be much hope of success, especially where the point of 

 union is the crown of the stock. The other lesson which comes 

 to us with special force we learned from the practice of summer 

 fallowing the wheat fields of the region we visited. Frequent 

 cultivation, not allowing a single weed to take moisture from the 

 soil, and providing a continuous dust mulch, will make gardening 

 successful during seasons when the rainfall is less than one-half the 

 normal rainfall of Minnesota — and we occasionally have such sea- 

 sons in this state. Instead of planning to put in expensive irriga- 

 tion plants, which may often be unsatisfactory at the best, try this 

 high degree of cultivation, and if thoroughly persisted in it should 

 give successful results in the dryest season. Another thought of 

 special interest to us is that there are no more hospitable people 

 in the world than those who live on the other side of the Canadian 

 line. 



GEORGIA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 

 ANNUAL MEETING, 1905. 



PROF. R. Iv. MACKINTOSH, AUBURN, AtA. 



The twenty-ninth annual meeting was held in Macon, the fifth 

 and sixth of September. The meeting was presided over by the 

 Hon. P. J. Berckmans, of Augusta, Ga., who has been the president 

 of the society ever since its organization in 1876. The members say 

 that it would be dangerous for a member to vote for any one other 

 than Mr. Berckmans. It is needless to say that he was unanimously 

 re-elected for the coming year. 



The meeting time was changed this year, so as to allow the 

 growers to market the crop before the meeting, but the change was 

 unfortunate, because there were not as many present as usual. This 

 was partly accounted for because of the fact that the fruit crop was 

 light this year, and so many of the growers have been growing 

 more cotton than usual. Cotton is bringing more than ten cents, 

 so it makes them work to get the crop gathered. The labor problem 

 is one of the important questions in this section. The negroes seem 

 to be leaving the farms for the mines, and consequently there is 

 need of more laborers. 



Macon is one of the old cities, and the people take great pride in 

 showing visitors over their beautiful city. I say beautiful, because 

 of the care taken to keep the city in good condition. The streets 

 are wide, and some have parkways through the middle, planted with 

 trees, shrubbery, chrysanthemums, violets, etc. The business por- 



