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Burning op Our Reports — The last lot of :iOn reports of this society for 

 1906 were destroyed by fire at the printers a short time sihce. This puts the 

 society in such shape as to be unable to furnish any longer to members a 

 copy of the last report. If you have not already received one, please save the 

 magazines of the year before, and in this way you will be able to keep your 

 tile, as the bound volume of 1906 contains, with a small amount of some 

 other matter, the magazines of that year. We hope that none of the mem- 

 bers who have as yet not renewed will fail to do so on account of this loss 

 which is indeed a most unfortunate one for the society. 



Fruit Outlook June 1st. — No special reports have been called for by 

 this office at the date mentioned on account of fruit trees not yet being in 

 blossom generally in the state. It would appear that there is some injury to 

 strawberry beds, shown by the partial winter-killing of many roots. Red 

 raspberries also in some cases show serious injury to the canes. As near as 

 can be judged now, fruit trees of all hardy kinds are in a very promising con- 

 dition. With plenty of fruit buds in sight, and with favorable conditions 

 from now on, it may be that Minnesota will have a considerable share ih sup 

 plying the fruit needed to take the place of that irrevocably lost for this sea- 

 son in the orchai'ds of Missouri, Kansas and the neighboring states. 



New Life Members. — Since the last annual report of the secretary' 

 made at the late annual meeting of the society, a number of life members 

 have been added to our roll as follows: 



D W. C. Ruff, St. Paul. W. H. Eddy, Howard t,ake. 



Frank Boushka, Biscaj'. F. E. Cutting, Byron. 



Peter Fournelle, White Bear I,ake. J. F. Wagner, Bennett, la. 



T. C. Fulton, White Bear l,ake. J. H. Kennedy, Sheyeniie, N. D. 



Fred H. Clarke, Avoca. J. S. Korista, Silver I,ake. 



W. A. Peterson, Yuma, Ariz. Eobert Hannah, Fergus Falls. 



G. D. McKisson, Fairmont. A. J. Volstead, Granite Falls. 



Geo. Teigen, I<owry. John G. Williams, Duluth. 



Geo. J. Kellogg, L,ake Mills, Wis. John Uno Sebenius, Duluth. 



Frank Yahnke, Winona Dr. T. S. Roberts. Minneapolis. 



Clarence Wedge, Albert Lea. L,. R. Moyer, Montevideo. 

 Halvor Halvorsou, Hills. 



Death of Arthur Bryant. — Arthur Bryant, senior member of the Hrm 

 of A. Bryant & Son, nurserymen, of Princeton, III., died suddenly in the 

 office of the nursery at one o'clock on May 13th. Mr. Bryant had been for 

 many years one of the leading members of the Illinois State Horticultural 

 Society, an organization with which he had been connected for over forty 

 years, and which had honored him with probably every position within its 

 gift. At the time of his death he was seventy-four years of age, a well 

 rounded out life passed almost entirely in practical horticultural pursuits. 

 Mr. Bryant is well known to many of our members as the representative of 

 the Illinois society at the annual meeting of our society on two separate 

 occasions during the past ten years. He was a most genial gentleman of 

 tried integrity business ability and noble citizenship. 



Decease op Mrs. Lydia Phillips Williams. — Mrs. Williams passed 

 away after a sickness of only one week at the residence of her son, in this 

 city, on Saturday, May 11th. At the time of her death she was filling the 

 office of secretary of the Minnesota Forestry Association for the second year. 

 She was a person of apparently robust health, and every indication gave 

 promise of many years of useful service yet in the field of practical forestry 

 development, in which she was greatly interested and where she had shown 



