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The Honor Roll for April. — The following members have sent in new 

 members to the society since March 26, up to and including April 24, that 

 being' the date when this number of our monthly goes to press. 



C. E. Oleson, Perley, 2 ; R. D. Wilson, Winnipeg, Man., i ; J. N. Peterson, 

 Fergus Falls, i ; L. P. Highmark, West Duluth, i ; J. P. Andrews, Faribault, 

 2 ; Andrew Strommer, Wegdahl, 2 ; S. McAdams, Swea City, la., i ; Geo. T. 

 Halbert, Mpls., i ; Geo. W. Strand, Taylor's Falls, 4 : Clarence Wedge, Al- 

 bert Lea, I ; O. M. Agre, Sacred Heart, i : P. Setzer, Blooming Prairie, i ; 

 M. J. Mosher, Pillsbury, i ; Nicolai Johnson, Glenwood. i. 



Forestry School .\t It.\sca State Park. — Another matter in which the 

 Horticultural Society is interested and which has been spoken of occasionally 

 in our journal is the founding of a demonstration forestry school in Itasca 

 State Park, at the headwaters of the Mississippi River. The state owns a 

 tract of virgin pine forest at that point, which was created into a state park 

 some years since. This park needs continuous care, and the purpose is to 

 combine the operation of a forestry school, under the management of the 

 state university, with the care of the forest in the park. In securing the 

 passage of legislation needed to bring this about, it was necessary to work up 

 sentiment in favor of this new movement in our state, and to this work Prof. 

 Green has given a large part of his leisure time during the past few months. 

 He was successful in securing a host of friends for the measure in the legis- 

 lature and in securing the passage of the necessary legislation, though the 

 amount asked for was finally cut down somewhat, as it appears in the general 

 appropriation bill. The amount provided, however, is not so small as to 

 cripple the enterprise, and the beginning of what will undoubtedly prove to 

 be one of the most successful forestry schools in America is to be made at 

 Itasca State Park the coming season. The interest that our society has 

 taken in forestry will be further accentuated by the success of this movement. 

 It means a long stride forward for the public school system in the state, of 

 which this forestry school becomes at once a part. 



Death of Mrs. Charlotte O. Van Cleve. — One of the oldest members 

 of the society, dying in her eighty-eighth year, as well as one of the oldest 

 life members, passed away on April ist, in the person of Mrs. C. O. VanCleve, 

 of Minneapolis. She stood eighth on the list of life members. All of those 

 preceding her on this list having finished their life work here excepting Mr. 

 Wyman Elliot and ex-secretary C. Y. Lacy. She was made an honorary life 

 member in the year 1882, in recognition of her service to the society in the 

 presentation of the results of her observations on the horticulture of the 

 Sandwich Islands. Mrs. Van Cleve was not, at least in later years, an attend- 

 ant at the meetings of the society, probably on account of her infirmity of 

 deafness, but she always took" a great interest in the work of the association 

 and a pardonable pride in her long honorary connection with it. She 

 was said to be the first white child of pure blood born in what is now the 

 state of Wisconsin, her birth occurring at Prairie du Chien, July ist, 1819. 

 At the age of seventeen, she was married to Lieut. Van Cleve, their early 

 home being made in Cincinnati. It was 1856 when they moved to Minnesota, 

 living the greater part of the time since then in Minneapolis. Mrs. Van Cleve 

 was the mother of twelve children and leaves behind her at her death a large 

 number of grand-children and several great-grand-children. Seven of her 



