360 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Are You Coming to the Fair?— This number will reach our 

 members too late probably to influence the exhibit in our depart- 

 ment this year, but not too late that you should visit the fair, if for 

 no other reason, for the opportunity it affords to study the fruit 

 development of the state as exemplified in the horticultural depart- 

 ment. Come to the state fair and make the horticultural building- 

 headquarters. You will feel at home there and receive a moat cor- 

 dial greeting-. 



Who Goes to the Pomological Society Meeting? — A number 

 have spoken to the writer of attending this meeting of the American 

 Pomological Society in Philadelphia, September 7th and 8th- 

 As the rate there is very low, on account of the G. A. R. meeting, some 

 old soldier who is a member of this society or, conversely, some 

 member of this society who is an old soldier, should furnish us a 

 delegate to this gathering. It will be a great meeting. Don't forget 

 to notify the secretary if you are going. 



Prosperity of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.— 

 A note from Jacob W. Manning, Reading, Mass., a life member of 

 this society, who has often met with us, says that the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society pays out over $7,000 annually in premiums,^ 

 and a new hall is in process of construction by them to cost $300,000. 

 It is believed the society is worth a million dollars, estimating the 

 value of the old hall and site at $700,000. Heretofore, the Philadel- 

 phia Horticultural Society has had the finest hall in the country. 



From Our Texas Member — Amasa Stewart, of Lemarque, Texas, 

 one of the best known of the old members of this society, has done 

 better than some of the resident members in sending in the report 

 on fruit asked for. He says that apples do not succeed well so far 

 south as that, though they do well in north Texas. Neither do crab 

 apples succeed there. Plums, pears and peaches, however, are the 

 great crop. It is also a good strawberry and blackberry country, 

 though currants and gooseberries do not stand the long summers. 

 We hope to greet this old member again at some annual meeting 

 not too far off. 



The Forest Reserve Movement. — The movement to establish a 

 large forest reserve in the pine woods region of this state is rapidly 

 gathering force and has culminated lately in a strong organization of 

 almost national character perfected at Chicago, of which President 

 Northrup, of our state university, is president. The area of land 

 under consideration for this use comprises a very large tract of 

 undefined size in and about the head waters of the Mississippi river. 

 A visit to this locality by the friends, in force, of this movement is 

 contemplated this fall and is likely to result in a crystallization of 

 purpose. The trend of public sentiment is evidently setting 

 strongly in the direction of forest protection both for public and 

 private domain and likely soon to bring about valuable practical 

 results. The sympathies and services of this society are heartily 

 enlisted in all this work. 



