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ways, and records are kept by the secretary of the receipts used 

 Information is given out where edible mushrooms of different kinds 

 are to be found. We are told where to look for them, at what seasons 

 ■of the year they may be expected. In the future, we intend to make 

 occasional excursions for field study, and it is the hope of the club, 

 as it grows in strength and membership, to collect and preserve in 

 alcohol, or other preserving fluids, fresh specimens for exhibition 

 at the state fair. We are also gathering a library of scientific books 

 on the subject, and occasionally the club gives a mushroom supper 

 at which different varieties are cooked by the members, gentlemen 

 as well as ladies taking a hand in their preparation. 



Visitors are welcome at our meetings. We are in correspondence 

 with other societies of similar aims, such as the Philadelphia and 

 Boston mycological societies, who were the pioneers in this work. 



Perhaps a question may arise in your minds "How do you dare 

 try an unknown specimen?'' I answer, we do not, until we know its 

 familj' and, further, that there are no poisonous members of that 

 family. 



From our study of scientific authorities on the food subject, we 

 iirst learn to identify a mushroom positively before we test it as a 

 food product. If we are at all uncertain about out identification, 

 we send the unknown specimen, properly packed, to either Captain 

 Mcllvaine or the Boston Mycological Society, where they have 

 •experts employed for the purpose. 



We shall be glad to have any and all of you become either active 

 or auxiliary members of our society, and we can assure you that it 

 will be to our mutual benefit, by giving you a new and easily 

 obtained food product and us the greater facility for study. The 

 advantage will be reciprocal. Should you not care, at first, to become 

 members, visit our meetings and spend an instructive and pleasant 

 evening with us, and you will receive a most cordial welcome. 



Note :— AU communications may be sent to Mrs. Dr. Whetstone, 408 Nicollet 

 avenue, Minneapolis, Minn. 



THE SOUTHERN MINNESOTA HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



R. PARKHILL, SECRETARY. 



In an article in the November Horticulturist on the organization 

 and growth of the Southern Minnesota Horticultural Society, the 

 former secretary, Mr Clarence Wedge, of Albert Lea, modestly 

 omits to mention the active part taken and the good work done 

 by hiin in caring for and encouraging this society from its small 

 beginning until the inembership roll reached one hundred or more 



About one year ago, the Fillmore County Horticultural Society 

 accepted a cordial invitation from the Southern Minnesota Horticul- 

 tural Society to hold a joint meeting at Austin, and at that meeting 

 the younger society proposed, was accepted, and the marriage 

 ceremony was then and there solemnized. The counties of Freeborn, 

 Mower and Fillmore now form the territory of this society, the 

 annual meeting being held in rotation at Albert Lea, Austin and 

 Spring Valley. 



