36 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



PROF. J. L. BUDD WILL REVISE DOWNING. 



Ames, Ia., Dec. 31. — Prof. J. L. Budd today resigns his position as 

 head of the department of horticulture and forestry in the Iowa State 

 Horticultural College, which position he has held for nearly a quar- 

 ter of a century. Prof. Budd came to this college in 1876, and by his 

 work has become well known all over the United States and Canada. 

 In 1882 he toured through Europe and Asia in the interests of horti- 

 culture, and the result was the introduction of foreign fruits, which 

 he successfully grafted with home fruits, producing a large num- 

 ber of new varieties which have proved to be the most hardy and 

 stable in the United States. Standard fruit books accredit almost 

 one-half of the existing varieties to the work done by Professor 

 Budd. 



Although with today Professor Budd sever :s his immediate con- 

 nection with the college here, he will not cease his valuable horti- 

 cultural researches. At a recent meeting of the board of trustees of 

 the college he was made "Professor Emeritus of Horticulture and 

 Forestry," a degree very seldom granted; in fact, there are few men 

 in the country bearing this degree of high honor. 



Professor Charles Downing, of New York, one of the most famous 

 horticulturists of this country, and author of several standard fruit 

 books, at his death, which occurred about eight years ago, willed to 

 Professor Budd his large library, including that of his late brother. 

 Professor A. J. Downing, the great author on landscape gardening, 

 which together made one of the best and most complete horticul- 

 tural libraries in the world. The very complete posthumous notes 

 on fruit were also furnished Professor Budd, and with these and the 

 information gained from his own researches. Professor Budd will 

 immediately commence the revision of Professor Charles Down- 

 ing's famous "Apple Book." 



Professor Budd's successor as professor of horticulture and 

 forestry in the Iowa State Agricultural College, is one of his former 

 students, Professor Charles Craig. Professor Craig is a graduate 

 from this college and has taken the degree of M. S. in Cornell Uni- 

 versity, at Ithaca, N. Y. Since Professor Craig left the college here 

 he has held with credit the very responsible position of superin- 

 tendent of all the provincial horticultural experiment stations of 

 the Dominion of Canada, and has been a member of the sub-faculty 

 at Cornell University. — Mianeapolis Journal. 



What Is the Baxter Apple?— We learn that agents in Southern 

 Minnesota are taking orders for the Baxter apple. It may be all 

 right for this latitude, but who can give us the information needed 

 about it ? Our readers are cautioned against buying seedling apples 

 not recommended by the horticultural society. Sec'y. 



