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short-lived. Applying this rule, you will find that cultivated cherries work 
well on the wild pin, pigeon or red cherry (Prunus Pennsylvanica), but 
do not succeed on the wild black cherry (Prunus serotina). As to pears on 
apple, the union has been found to be short-lived. Pears would do better 
on hawthorn or mountain ash. I have them growing on Juneberry now 
two years, but the union, I fancy, will not be long-lived, owing to the ex- 
cessive dwarfing of the pear-top. 
“As for the Compass, if you want a nice experiment, try seedlings. of 
this variety. The rule is that all seedlings of hybrid plants are apt to sport 
a great deal, as you know, and that they revert to one or the other parent, 
and sometimes interesting results appear, due to reversion to some previous 
ancestor. New characteristics also frequently appear, due to the “break- 
ing up” of the fixity of type. I will try this with the Compass—Knudson’s 
Sand Cherry or the Compass Sand Cherry should be the common name, 
because the name ‘cherry’ is rather misleading, as you say. 
“T think it is very important that Gideon’s work be traced. out and 
constantly kept track of by the Minnesota society. We have a number of 
Gideon’s crabs in the college orchard, and I am watching these. No. 25 
is a very heavy bearer. 
“T am growing some of the choicest American winter apples in pots 
and boxes, and using the pollen on Hibernal, and vice versa. I hope to get 
* * * an ‘orchard house.’ I am working with several odd types of the 
apple, including a seedless apple and a red-fleshed apple, but such work 
is very slow, as you know. I am working very extensively with the growing 
under cultivation of many of the native fruits, and expect to make a few 
additions to our prairie pomology. 
“Tf you hear of any wild grape with specially large fruit, please let me 
know.” N. E. HANSEN. 
Brookings, S. D., Aug. 8, 1goo. 
WHY WOMEN SHOULD BE INTERESTED IN 
FORESTRY. 
PROF. MARIA I, SANFORD, MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY. 
First, because they are natural conservers of the beautiful. No one de- 
nies that the cultivation of beauty belongs to woman’s sphere. We all re- 
member fondly that it was mother, who, by little touches here and there, a 
bit of color, a trifling ornament, a skillful arrangement of everything, made 
the charm of home. As Lowell puts it: 
“The whole dumb dwelling grew conscious, 
And put on her looks and ways.”’ 
Every home bears the stamp of the woman who rules over it, and if she 
be a woman of taste, she will throw a charm over the plainest surroundings, 
making what was bare and bleak, sweet and homelike. 
Not only within the home, but around it, we see the evidence of wom- 
an’s taste and refinement. The flower beds, the woodbine and morning 
glory, the lawn and the shrubbery, exist for her and share her care and 
pride. The trees, too, around many a home, were planted because the judi- 
cious and refined housewife knew their use and beauty. 
It is but another step in the same direction for our women to interest 
themselves in forestry. It is only recognizing the truth that their influencé 
should not be confined to their own households. Already women have 
