198 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Currants and gooseberries will bloom very full; can’t say as to raspberries 
and strawberries, as they are yet in winter quarters, also grapes. I have 
Seek-no-iurther, Jonathan, Grime’s Golden, Minkler, Northwestern Green- 
ing, Ben Davis, all top-worked, that are full of fruit-buds and perfect in 
every way; and Gakovaska pear on Tetofsky that every bud to all appear- 
ance is perfect. I found in an orchard near here Baldwin and Rhode Island 
Greening, grafted onto Virginia crab two years ago, that are set full of 
fruit-buds. Every orchard that I have visited that has had proper care and 
attention. is in perfect condition. I find in nine cases out of ten, it is the 
owner that winter-kills—J. C. Hawkins, Austin, Minn., April 19, 1900. 
I have taken some time to look over the situation and discover that all 
fruit trees that were not seriously injured the previous winter have come 
through the past one in good condition and are well supplied with fruit- 
buds, and present indications point toward a reasonably good crop of apples, 
plums and cherries. While grapes had not quite recovered their normal vig- 
or after the injury of 1898-99, they have wintered well, and those even that 
were not given protection are uninjured. Without later unfavorable condi- 
tions the crop will be an average one. Raspberries have suffered more here 
than the other fruits. The injury appears to have occurred with the first frost 
in the fall, which caught them with a new growth started. Present indica- 
tions point to little more than a half crop. Strawberries have generally 
wintered well, but the crop of this vicinity is not expected to be more than 
two-thirds of that of last year, owing to the damage done to the new plan- 
tations by the floods of last June and the drouth of late summer causing a 
scant rooting of plants. 
We had too much snow during the winter, the last of the drifts disap- 
peared yesterday, and we have just had thirty hours of rain. The soil is so 
wet that we have not yet been able to start in on spring work.—J. S. Harris, 
La Crescent, April 17. 
_ Secretary's mie 
T. T. Lyon, South Haven, Michigan, died in February, 87 years old. No 
Michigan horticulturist stood higher, or has been more useful in his day and 
generation. 
A TRIPLE JOINTED MEETING.—It is interesting to note a joint meeting of 
the state horticultural societies of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas, at the 
Texas Agricultural College Station, July 3, 4,5 and6. A four days’ session 
in the summer! This must be the dullest season for fruit growers in that 
region. Is there a hint in this for us? 
List OF THOSE SENDING NEW MEMBERS IN APRIL.— 
Rolla Stubbs, 1. J. P. Andrews, 4 
C. E. Older, 3. Rev. R. Vallquist, 4. 
T. T. Bacheller, 1. E. H. S. Dartt, 2. 
John Zellar, 1. C. R. Johnson, 1. 
