C!ecretary's (^orijer. 



Membership for 1902— Now (Mch. 20) stands at 1076. This is high 

 water mark for the society — but we must go higher. Have you sent in a new 

 member for this year yet? 



Have You Received the 1902 Report?— Most of the reports are sent to 

 members from this office by express. If any member has received one bruised 

 or injured in any way, by breaking down the corners of the binding, etc., the 

 secretary would like to know of it, and how it was received, whether by ex- 

 press or by mail. 



Jarring Plum Trees for Curculio. — This to be successful must be done 

 early in the morning. A sheet of some kind should be spread under the tree 

 and then strike the trunk of the tree sharply with a padded stick. This 

 causes the plum curculio and plum gouger to fall to the sheet, where they can 

 be gathered and destroyed. R. S. Mackintosh. 



"Vegetable Gardening" Revised. — This practical guide to the growing of 

 vegetables in this climate, by Prof. S. B. Green, notice of the revision of 

 which had place in the Secretary's Corner in the August number, has now ap- 

 peared in its fourth edition, somewhat enlarged and largely re-written 

 throughout. It is printed on fine paper, of a little lighter weight than its pre- 

 decessor, and is sold now for $1.00. While written especially for a class 

 book for the Agricultural College it is equally of value to every grower of 

 vegetables Have you a copy? Apply to the Secretary. 



"Forestry in Minnesota Re-Written" — A new edition of this text book 

 by its author. Prof. S. B. Green, practically written anew throughout, is now in 

 press and will soon be ready for distribution. Being printed by the state, it 

 will be sold at cost, 25c in cloth binding. On these terms the edition should 

 be speedily exhausted, as it gives the very information needed by every one 

 who has the planting or the care of forest trees on their hands, either in the 

 shape of forest, grove, windbreak or isolated trees. The book can be had by 

 addressing the author, at St. Anthony Park, or this society gives it away as a 

 preminm for sending in a new member. You should have it in some way! 



Death of Secretary Manning, of the Massachusetts Society.— 

 Robert Manning, for a long period secretary of the Massachusetts society, died 

 suddenly at his home in Salem on February 17th and was buried there the 

 19th. Although of somewhat advanced age, being born in 1827, his health 

 was very good up to the time of his death, and the news of it comes with 

 great suddenness. As a working officer of probably the oldest and best en- 

 dowed horticultural society in this country, Mr. Manning was very well and 

 most favorably known. While the writer had no personal acquaintance with 

 him, yet an occasional correspondence makes this loss seem very largely a 

 personal one. 



