Secretary's (^orijer. 



Send in a new Member — before April 1st! 



A Horticultural Museum at Pullman, Wash. — In connection with the 

 short course in horticulture, Professor Fletcher is trying to build up a horticul- 

 tural museum, in which will be exhibited specimens to illustrate pruning, 

 grafting, budding, insects and diseases of orchards, spraying appliances, etc., 

 in fact, everything in connection with the management of orchards. 



The New State Entomologist. — Prof. F. L. Washburn, from the Oregon 

 Agricultural College, has been appointed professor of Entomology in the 

 Minnesota College of Agriculture as successor of the lamented Prof. Otto 

 Lugger. Ex-omcio he is also "State Entomologist." The board has taken 

 ample time in making a selection, and we are assured it is a good one. 



Plant Premiums for Renewals. — All renewals of membership in this 

 society to be entitled to plant premiums must be made prior to April 1st. 

 Each member who desires them, when sending $1.00, the annual fee for 1902, 

 may select two premiums of plants from a list to be found on the inside page 

 of the front cover of this magazine. Please give this immediate attention! 



Our Annual Membership Roll —As this is written the annual roll for 

 the current year stands at 797 as against 609 at the same date last year. 

 Have you sent in a new member for this year? And have you made good use 

 of the 1901 Horticulturists and the society folders sent you by the secretary? 

 We want the roll to reach 1,200 this year, and it can easily with your help. 



The Manitoba Society in Session.— This society, termed the Western 

 Horticultural Society, was in annual session in Winnipeg February 21st. 

 Unfortunately no arrangement could be made this year for a delegate there, 

 but we were with them there most heartily in spirit. We hope another year to 

 exchange delegates again. The society holds an interesting session of a 

 single day. % 



More Apples from Russia.— Prof. N. E. Hansen of the South Dakota 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, in a recent letter says that he has "just re- 

 ceived a small consignment of eleven kinds of apples from Russia; some of 

 them new Russian apple and Siberian crab crosses." Minnesota horticulturists 

 are equally interested with those of our sister state in the outcome of this new 

 importation. 



Raising Oranges under Difficulty.— A Minnesotan just back from 

 Florida says: "You might raise oranges here as well as thtfre, judging by the 

 care taken. Where they are trying to save their groves, they set the trees out 

 and put a cotton tent around them and then put an oil stove in the tent. 1 

 don't know but what an orange grove might be tried in Minneapolis under 

 such conditions." 



