l6o MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Death of Dr. M. M. FrissellE — Dr. Frisselle died at the home of his 

 daughter, Mrs. Gilbert Von Ellen, 916 Chicago Ave., Minneapolis, after a 

 very brief illness, on Tuesday, March 18th, at the advanced age of eighty 

 years. Since 1889, except the last two or three years, the doctor had been a 

 member of this society He was a man of considerable library attainments as 

 well as a practicing dentist and an expert horticulturist. For some years he has 

 made his home on a fruit place on the south shore of Lake Minnetonka, where 

 he set a practical example of the good results following thorough and intelli- 

 gent work along horticultural lines. The writer understands that only within 

 a few days prior to his decease had he sold this place with the intention of 

 claiming the physical rest to which his years and service entitled him. 



Meadow Vale Horticultural Society, Annual Meeting, Jan. 10_ 

 1902 —Officers elected: Albert Heath, president; Chas. A. Hill, vice-president; 

 F. J. Keasling, secretary and treasurer. 



Delegates to state meetidgin 1902: A. W. Keays, Albert Heath, Chas. A. Hill. 



After election of officers, A. W. Keays read a report of the trial station at 

 this place, as he is superintendent of it, and exhibited some fine specimens of 

 fruit, with remarks as to their merits and adaptability to this section. After 

 this the report of the delegate to the state meeting was listened to and discussed. 



Quite an interest is shown in horticulture in this section, and a good many 

 plum and cherry trees are being planted, but not so many apples, although 

 some trees are doing very well ; but people are a little afraid to plant many 

 apple trees. F. J. Keasling, Secretary. 



An Enemy of the Aphis— In the spring of 1901, after the leaves of the 

 apple trees had opened I found the trees covered with aphis. I at once sent 

 for a new sprayer, which was over two weeks in coming. I went into the 

 orchard with the sprayer, primed ready for slaughter, but failed to find the 

 enemy in numbers worth fighting, but on looking over the trees I found num- 

 erous small brown worms busy eating aphis. They seemed to prefer the small 

 ones. They did no damages to the trees and finally disappeared. I also found 

 the worms in Canada and Michigan in October eating aphis, although there 

 were very few aphis to be found at that time. 



The worm is about three-eighths of an inch in length, tapering at each end 

 and quite large in the center of body; long, small, black head; the color is dull 

 yellow and light brown; the back is a bright yellow, and along the back is a 

 row of small brown spots, eight tufts of hairy bristles protruding from each 

 side of the body. A. W. Keays, Elk River, 



Apple Seed from the Experiment Station— The apple seed sent out 

 by the Experiment Station this year was saved from named varieties in the 

 summer of 1901. It has been kept dry over winter and will need some 

 especial care to assure its growing well this season. Perhaps the best way to 

 treat it is to soak it in water over night, then mix it with moist sand and put 

 out doors during the frosty nights of the early half of April. About the middle 

 of April bring the seed into the house with the sand and keep in a warm room 

 and stir from the bottom about once a day. As soon as seed starts it should be 

 planted in light, rich soil. It is better to keep it in the house until it is started, 

 as in this way a better stand will be secured than if planted at once in the open 

 ground, where it will be liable to the attacks of rodents, and the baking of the 

 soil over it may prevent its coming up well. Should cut worms be plentiful 

 some provision should be made for surrounding the seedlings with a box six 

 inches high. Saml. B. Green. 



