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SECRETARY S CORNER. 



Death of David Secor. — This much esteemed life member of our .society 

 passed away on Sept. 14th last. He had been in feeble health for some years, 

 so that his death was not unexpected. Many of our members had become 

 acquainted with Mr. Secor as a constant attendant at the annual meetings of 

 the society during most of the time since he became a life member, which 

 was in 1901, and prior to that date also an annual member. A more extended 

 obituary notice of this deceased l^rother will appear in an early issue of our 

 monthly. 



DoNT Forget THE Aj^n UAL Meeting— To be held in Minneapolis at the 

 same place as last year, on Dec. 3-4-5-t). The program, which is now com- 

 pleted and in press, will be sent you about the middle of November. Give it 

 careful examination, and you will And it full of meat from beginning to end. 

 Select those sessions which most appeal to you and then plan to be present 

 at every one of them from the beginning to the close, The opening of our 

 annual meeting is always an imi)ressive hour, and it is especially desirable 

 that every member should be present at 9:4:5 promptly when this session 

 opens. The closing exercises on Friday afternoon carry with them special 

 interest also. The four days together cement a friendship hard to sever 

 even temporarily, as the parting words of our members clearly indicates. 

 The next number will contain the final remarks of the session of a year ago. 

 They are well worth reading over to get into the spirit of what is before you 

 at the coming annual gathering. 



A Valuable Seedling Plum.— Samples of what gives promise of being a 

 valuable seedling plum were received in September from Mrs. F. E. Phillips, 



of Sioux Falls, S. D., who also 

 made an entry of this variety 

 for the Loring prize of SlOO, 

 ottered for a seedling plum of 

 special merit. (See page 280 

 in the report of 1905.) This 

 plum is described as fol- 

 lows: — Diameter 1 9-16 inches: 

 (|uality sweet and rich; free- 

 stone: color red or dark peach: 

 flesh firm: skin tough and peels 

 well. Mrs. Phillips reports 

 that the tree b'^aring this fruit 

 was grown from a pit planted 



I^H^^^^^^^^^^P ipl^^^^H by her father fifteen ago 



Hf ^^RKl^^H^^I ^^^ ^^^ endured all weather 



■^^wfck^^^^^i to even forty degrees below 

 zero without injury whatever. 

 It belongs to the Americana 

 family of plums, or, in other 

 words, is a wild plum. The 

 tree bears heavily annually, usually several bushels, and so heavily 

 that it becomes necessary to support the branches. The accompanying 

 illustration shows a cluster of fruit taken from this tree a year ago. 



A i-lusler uf fiuil lioin the seedling i>luiu trt'e 

 of Mrs. F. E. Phillips, Sioux Falls. S. D. 



