Secretary's (^ori^er. 



Can You Show Fruit at the State Fair?— This is not so good 

 a fruit year in our state as some, and the aid of every one interested 

 in repeating the good show of last fall is urgently needed. Will 

 you kindly inform the secretary, without waiting for personal ap- 

 plication, what you can do in this way, and, if desired, tags will be 

 sent you for use in storing fruit at Minneapolis in preparation. 



White Flowering Almond. — "President Pendergast at our sum- 

 mer meeting gave out a list of hardy flowering shrubs and said 

 that the flowering almond would be one of the best if entirely hardy. 

 I know the pink blossomed are not hardy, but the white ones are en- 

 tirely so. I have grown them for more than twenty years." 



J. T. Grimes, Minneapolis. 



A Horticultural Society in Virginia.— There must have been 

 at some prior date a state horticultural society in Virginia, as the 

 report received in this office speaks of the society as re-organized 

 March 3, 1897. This, their first report, for the year 1898, is an interest- 

 ing volume of 110 pages, edited by the secretary, Geo. E. Murrell, of 

 Fontella, Va. Nearly every southern state now has such a society, 

 though some do not as yet publish reports. 



Have Tou Returned the July Supplement?— In the July 

 number was placed a supplement, which was really a blank to be 

 filled out with certain information needed in this office for statisti- 

 cal and other important uses. If you, dear reader, are one of those 

 who have not yet sent it to the secretary filled as requested, will you 

 kindly g^ve the matter early attention? Do not think, because of a 

 personal acquaintance with the secretary, that he knows all the facts 

 it would contain. He does'nt know so much, but he is very desirous 

 to know these facts for the ultimate benefit of yourself, in common 

 with others interested in our pursuit. Please send in very soon. 



Store Fruit for the Winter Meeting. — Tags will be supplied 

 on application to this office to be used in placing in cold storage 

 for that occasion anything you can display and that will not keep 

 till then in the cellar. Any varieties that will keep in the cellar may 

 be held in that way if preferred. A separate list of premiums will 

 be prepared, without doubt, this year for frviit so kept, as well as for 

 that in cold storage. The cold storage facilities arranged for by our 

 society are.however, a great convenience, not only in enabling us to 

 exhibit fruits out of their season, but also in storing fruits that 

 would keep in the cellar, as by so storing it is on hand in Minneapolis 

 when wanted and can be delivered at the place of meeting without 

 danger of freezing. You can use either or both places as convenient, 

 but in any case help us out in the display. 



