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The $1000 Seedling Apple Premium.— Copies of the regulations 

 were sent out early in October to twenty-eight informal applicants 

 and 150 horticultural and agricultural periodicals throughout the 

 country. Seedlings of the kitjd asked for are not very plentiful, and 

 the commitee do not expect to be overrun with formal applications. 

 The following members compose the permanent committee on 

 award: Prof. S. B. Green, St. Anthony Park, Minn., chairman; J. M. 

 Underwood, Lake City; J. S. Harris, La Crescent; Clarence Wedge, 

 Albert Lea; A. K. Bush, Dover. 



Programs Will Be Sent to Members.— Notwithstanding the 

 program will appear in the December Horticulturist as usual, a 

 copy will be sent to each member about the loth of Nov. This will 

 give those on the program an opportunity to note their position 

 therein and arrange beforehand to be in attendance promptly- 

 Don't forget to put the program in your pocket and bring it to the 

 naeeting. The programs will be accompanied by a renewal card, 

 and it will assist the secretary very much if members will at once 

 remit the annual fee for the coming year,before the convening of the 

 annual meeting. 



Headquarters at Annual Meeting.— Hotel Vendome, the same 

 hotel that has been used as stopping place for our members the 

 past two years, will be the headquarters again for the annual meet- 

 ing convening December 5th to 8lh next. It will be found to add 

 very largely to the pleasure of the social feature of this gathering 

 if the members are brought together here very generally. There 

 being no evening sessions of the society, the parlors of the hotel 

 are made the place of the liveliest social intercourse. Bring your 

 grip for a four days stay, and put up with us at the Vendome and 

 have a good time. The rates will be the same as last year, 50 cents 

 to $1.00. 



Bulletin on "Root-Killing of Apple Trees".— Prof. N. E. Han- 

 sen, well known to all Minnesota horticulturists as the professor of 

 horticulture at the South Dakota Experiment Station, is the author 

 of a bulletin just issued from that station with the above title. It is 

 intended as a review of the experience at the station and contains be- 

 sides many observations and suggestions as a result of the profes- 

 sor's opportunities of noting how this problem is being solved in the 

 countries of northern Europe and Asia. It makes a very good com- 

 pendium of what is known on the subject in the northwest at this 

 stage of experimentation. Anyone interested in this subject, as all 

 orchardists must be, should secure a copy of the bulletin from the 

 professor and give it careful reading. Address at Brookings, S. D. 



Peter M. Gideon died at his residence, in Excelsior, Minn., Friday 

 morning, Oct. 27, 1899. Obituary in December nuraber. 



The Wisconsin Horticulturist, in the Oct. No., just received, an- 

 nounces the death of M. A. Thayer, the founder of the Thayer Fruit 

 Farms, at Sparta, Wis., and for many years president of the Wiscon- 

 sin society. 



