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A New Building For Horticulture at The IowaCollege. — The writer 

 has been honored with a formal invitation to the opening of the new laboratory 

 building connected with the department of horticulture at the Iowa State 

 College. Minnesota horticulturists congratulate their Iowa friends on this 

 addition to an already excellent equipment in our line of work. With the 

 three capable young men who are connected with that department, valuable 

 results are certainly to be expected. 



Minnesota at the Wisconsin Horticultural Meeting. — Besides Mr. 

 Wyman Elliot, the regularly appointed delegate from this society, Oliver 

 Gibbs and A. W. Latham attended the annual meeting of the Wisconsin 

 society, held in Madison, Wis., February 3-6. There was a good attendance 

 and an excellent program. The writer appreciated the opportunity of meet- 

 ing a number of very pleasant acquaintances. A report of the meeting will 

 appear from the pen of Mr. Elliot in our monthly. 



Horticulture at the St. Louis Exposition. — The pomological exhibi- 

 tion at the coming exposition in St. Louis will occupy a part of the agricul- 

 tural building, which is reputed to be larger than any other building ever yet 

 constructed, holding within its walls approximately 36 acres of ground. The 

 plans, as formulated, according to a personal statement from the superinten- 

 dent of building, Mr. F. W. Taylor, give to horticulture a portion of the 

 building extending across from side to side, of such width as the interest may 

 demand. This will probably prove a very satisfactory arrangement. 



A Local Society at Madison. — Mr. O. M. Lord, of Minnesota Cky, as- 

 sisted by Prof. L. C. Johonnot, of the Farmers' Institute Corps, met with a 

 number of citizens of Madison, in western Minnesota, on the evening of Feb- 

 ruary 14th, to assist in organizing a local Horticultural Improvement Society. 

 An interesting meeting was followed by a signing of a proposed constitution, 

 in which about twenty-five participated. The organization is to be completed 

 at an early date. There is room for such a society, combining horticulture 

 and general improvement, in every neighborhood in the state. 



A Word from Manitoba. — "We are having a queer winter here, no snow 

 but fine sunshiny weather, which as a fruit grower here I have learned to 

 dread; but we hope for the best. We have been fighting off partridges from 

 our apple trees for the past month. A flock will alight on an apple tree and 

 in ten minutes it is stripped of every bud in sight. Our apple crop was good 

 last year, between twenty-five and thirty bushels were gathered; about the 

 same quantity of crab apples and plums. Small fruit only fair." 



t A. P. Stevenson, Nelson. 



Fruit of Manitoba Production. — At the Industrial Exposition, held in 

 Winnipeg last fall there was an unexpected display of fruit, speaking of 

 which the president of the Western Horticultural Society says: "There were 

 forty-seven exhibits of standard apples, eight of hybrids, and eighteen crabs, 

 besides a large number of seedling and other plums. The exhibition excited 

 very general interest, and the advertisement thus given to the fact that apples 

 and plums can be successfully grown in Manitoba cannot fail to do good. 

 The samples shown included summer, fall and winter varieties, and were of 

 such excellence as might have done honor to any of the recognized apple 

 growing countries." This list included thirty- three different varieties of 

 apples and twenty-six of crabs and hybrids. 



