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Special Premium Ofkers for the Annum. MEETiNCi. — Quite a num- 

 ber of valuable special premium offers are to be made by some of the nursery- 

 men of the state in connection with the fruit exhibit at the coming annual 

 meeting of the society. Those that have been received at the time of writing 

 this, are: two of fifty three-year old apple trees each, from the Jewell Nursery 

 Co., one for the best early winter seedling apple and the other for the best 

 late winter seedling apple. Two premium offers have been received from the 

 Clinton Falls Nursery Co., at Owatonna, each fcjr 115.00 worth of nursery 

 stock, to be selected by the successful exhibiter. One of these prizes is for the 

 best peck of Wealthy and the other for the best peck of Pattens' Greening. 

 A special premium of twenty-five three-year old trees is also offered by the 

 Andrews Nursery Co., for the best peck of Northwestern Greenings. This list 

 will undoubtedly be added to before the program goes to press 



A National Apple Day. — Tuesday, October 24th, is being ob.served, we 

 are informed, by a number of state horticultural societies, fruit growers' associa. 

 tions and kindred organizations as a "national apple day," with the thought 

 that a union of effort in this way will assist in lifting the apple growing indus- 

 try to a higher and more successful plane. The day is being variously observed 

 by a public display of fruit, by papers, public talks and offers of prizes for ex- 

 hibits. Minnesota has a pretty successful "apple day" at the time of the annual 

 meeting of the horticultural societ}^ which is doing much to call the attention 

 of the public to the success of apple culture in Minnesota. Perhaps it might be 

 well for the society also to notice this effort to establish a "national apple 

 day" and participate in it. 



An Acknowledgment Neglected. — Credit should have been given in 

 the October number to Prof. F. L Washburn, State Entomologist, for the use 

 of an original cut of the Cottony Maple Scale appearing on page 367 in con' 

 nection with a short article describing this insect, written by Prof. S. B. Green- 

 Any who are interested to know more about this pest should consult the Eighth 

 Annual Report of the State Entomologist, which can be had upon application 

 to him at St. Anthony Park. 



The Gospel of New Fruits in Minnesota.— A letter from Mr. Luther 

 Burbank, the well known creator of new fruits and flowers, written from his 

 home in Santa Rosa, Calif., under date of September 25th, says: "Minnesota 

 will, in time, by growing seedling fruits have as good plums, apples, and 

 berries as are now to be found in any other state, and you have, of course just 

 the climate for tenting. It cannot be done elsewhere." Mr. Burbank here 

 has sounded the keynote of success for the Minnesota pomologist. To reach 

 this success you have to just "keep everlastingly at it" until the desired results 

 are obtained. 



Postponed MEETING of Beekeepers' Association.— The Minnesota 

 Beekeepers' Association will not meet this year conjointly with the Horticul- 

 tural Society on account of the National Beekeepers' Association meeting in 

 Chicago, which takes place at the same date as the ann-ual meeting of our 

 society. The beekeepers have, on account of this, decided to postpone their 

 meeting or omit it altogether, as they may later decide. 



A Profitable Yield of Blackberries— W. E. Fryer, of Mantorville^ 

 writes that ' 'six rows of blackberries eighteen rods long, and four of them 

 planted only the year before, produced last year 1450 quarts. This season the 

 same rows produced 1800 quarts . ' ' Who has done better? Mr. Fryer does not 

 state the variety. 



