_Seeretary’s ' Porner. 
HAVE You A STATE FAIR PREMIUM List ?—If not, send to this office for a 
copy zow and make your entries early. 
INFORMATION WANTED as to whether you have filled out and sent to the 
secretary the blank sent you to learn what fruits you are growing, etc. Please 
give this prom? attention ! 
PLEASANT Worps.—“This is the first year that I have belonged to your soci- 
ety, and I am so well pleased with your work that it will be a pleasure to me 
to comply with your request. You are doing a noble work, and I am very 
much pleased with your monthlies; they are most welcome visitors.’’—J. S. 
List OF THOSE SENDING NEW MEMBERS IN JULY AND AUGUST.— 
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Don’? FoRGET—to store your fruit for the winter meeting, and it will be 
much better to send it to cold storage. If you have no tags for this purpose, 
send to the secretary for some. Store fruit for this purpose expressly, and do 
not depend on saving it at the state fair, as some do. Fruit at second 
hand is not likely to be of the best or keep well. 
SEEDLINGS IN THE GIDEON ORCHARD.—A very large number of apple trees 
are bearing, in many cases profusely, in the seedling orchards of the late Peter 
M. Gideon. As his son, Ansel, now in charge of the orchard, says: ‘‘ This is 
the crop father always wanted to live to see.’? The number of seedlings bearing 
will run up into the hundreds. It is hoped to have an exhibit of the best of 
them at the coming state fair, and such as will keep till then at the winter 
meeting of the society. It is too early yet to estimate as to their value. 
PRoF. GREEN’S SECOND LETTER.—The second letter from Prof. Green in 
the course of his European tour appears in this number. It came very early in 
the month, but still a little too late to go into the July number. We are speci- 
ally impressed, as before, with the diminishing size of the world. The forests 
of Germany are proved to be only twelve days away from the heart of the 
American continent. Though other letters from the Professor are expected 
they cannot appear in our monthly before the September number, and before 
its issue he will be here in person unless some hitch occurs in his plans, which 
provide for a return the last of August. 
LoNG LAKE Fruit GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION.—The articles of incorporation 
and by-laws of this association, organized from among the fruit growers on the 
north shore of Lake Minnetonka, are published in this number. We commend 
them to the careful study of all engaged commercially in fruit growing and 
would suggest the advisability of making a note of where they may be 
found for future reference. The association is not a theory, but a solid and 
successful fact, and the constitution and by-laws under which they are now 
operating are the outgrowth and result of several years’ experience. Some 
similar association should be formed in each neighborhood where numbers are 
engaged in this business. It will be found that one person can sell the fruit 
from ten to one hundred growers much better and vastly cheaper than can be 
