_Seeretary’s ' ®orner. 
A SPECIAL FORESTRY BULLETIN—The article in this number of ‘‘The Ex- 
pense of the Proposed National Park,’’ by Prof. S. B. Green, is about to be 
issued by the University of Minnesota in substance as here printed as a special 
bulletin. It is commended to your careful perusal. 
Can You AFFORD TO MISS OUR ANNUAL MEETING?—Study the program, 
now in your hands, and see if you can afford to miss such a meeting as this 
promises to be, even if you have already attended one horticultural meeting 
this season. That will only whit your appetite for this. 
GONE TO CALIFORNIA,—Early in November Mr. J. M. Underwood and wife 
went to Southern California, where they will spend the winter with a brother of 
his at Los Angeles. We shall miss them much at our coming annual meeting, 
from one of which they have not been absent in many years. 
A QUARTETTE OF PROFESSORS OF HORTICULTURE.—At our coming annual 
meeting will be present the professors of horticulture connected with the State 
Agricultural Experiment Stations of North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin 
and Minnesota and perhaps others. They would’make a convention alone. 
THE NORTHWESTERN IowA Hort. SociETY.—Meets in annual session this 
year at Emmetsburg, on Dec. 4,5, 6. Unfortunately this date clashes with 
that of the meeting of ‘our own society, and we are unable to exchange dele- 
gates without depriving some one of the privilege of attending his own meet- 
ing. 
THE DELEGATE FROM Iowa.-—Hon. C. Ll. Watrous, president of the Ameri- 
can Pomological Society, who represents the Iowa State Society at our meet- 
ing, is to talk on the subject of ‘‘Origination of New Fruits’’ immediately 
after the reading of a paper on that subject by Chas. G. Patten, of Charles 
City, Iowa, on Wednesday forenoon. 
THE PROPOSED BADGE BooK.—Have you notified the secretary of your 
proposed attendance at the coming annual meeting so that your name may go 
into the badge book? If not, there may yet be time, if you write z#mediately. 
They must be ready for use December 4th, and it will take three days to get 
them out. Your name should appear there. 
A FULL PROGRAM.—The coming meeting is to bea busy one for a large por_ 
tion of those in attendance. Over eighty persons have accepted assignments 
on the program, and in many cases they are called on for more than one ser- 
vice, to which all are cheerfully responding. Itis this hearty willingness to 
serve which is making this society such a power for usefulness. 
