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Winnipeg. We are not trying to do very much with strawberries 

 here now on account of the soil; but we are growing some thirty- 

 five or forty varieties and mean to keep pretty well posted. We 

 are, however, paying some attention to originating new varieties. 

 When I was in France I saw some very nice berries on the 

 Grounds of Vilmorin, which they called St. Anthony de Padua. I 

 brought some seed home with me, but the plants grown from it 

 did not do well. However, I wintered them in the greenhouse, and 

 the next season crossed them with the Bederwood and the Cres- 

 cent, and I now have more than a thousand seedlings, and we 

 hope to get from them some new varieties of merit. That is the 

 kind of work I am trying to do now, and that is the kind of 

 work I think we ought to do here, where it is possible for us to 

 control the conditions in a way that the ordinary grower cannot 

 do. We are doing the same thing with the Compass cherry and 

 sand cherry. 



Mr. Underwood's paper on "Rose Culture" was prepared at 

 the special request of the secretary, on account of the dearth of 

 material in our reports pertaining to the subject and his special 

 fitness for its preparation. As he spoke Mr. Underwood stood in 

 front of the beautiful display of thirty-five varieties of roses made 

 by the Jewell Nursery Company, which was a powerful and beau- 

 tiful illustration and object lesson for the enforcement of the value 

 of the methods of culture described. 



At the close of the program a vote of thanks was given to those 

 who had contributed papers and talks, Mr. Underwood's paper on 

 roses receiving especial mention, with the hope that it might be 

 published generally in the press of the state. A hearty vote of 

 thanks was also given to the farm school management for their oft 

 repeated and most' generous hospitality. The secretary also came 

 in for a share of the public thanks, for his interest and energy in 

 bringing the society to its present large membership. Mr. Elliot 

 in making this motion stated the membership roll lacked only 

 fourteen of being an even 1,200, and gave an invitation to those 

 present not members to hand in their names, and enough 

 responded to bring the list up to the coveted number. 



A pleasant feature of the proceedings was the voting to place 

 on the honorary life membership roll the names of Mr. Wm. Ly- 

 ons, for twenty years an active and efficient member of the society; 

 Mr. A. J. Philips, of West Salem, Wis., who has long taken an un- 

 usual interest in this society of a sister state and rendered it good 

 service by voice and pen, and the honored president of the society, 

 Prof. W. W. Pendergast, a horticulturist by nature, though a ped- 



