400 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



It is fruiting very freely and is likely to prove a valuable kind for general 

 planting. The Green Mountain is another of the newer varieties shown 

 worthy of attention. The Brilliant grape is a kind not ripe at that time 

 but has since been brought into this office by Prof. Green, fully ripe and devel- 

 oped, a very handsome bunch of large, amber- colored fruit. It is a cross 

 between the Lindley and Delaware, one of Prof. Munson's crosses. The vine- 

 yards at the station should be visited by all lovers of the vine, as they contain 

 a very full collection of the earlier ripening and hardier sorts, and present a 

 valuable object lesson as to the results of intelligent care. 



Practical Forestry to be Tried in North Minnesota. — Our readers 

 will be interested in the following extract from the Minneapolis Journal of 

 Sept. 13, 1902, announcing, as it does, the inauguration in our state of a 

 system of economic forestry. This practical expression of the growth of 

 general sentiment on this subject may be considered a forecast of the treat- 

 ment that public forests in this country are to receive, and private ownership 

 will not be far behind as its economic value becomes apparent. 



"Gifford Pinchot, chief of the bureau of forestry, E. S. Bruce official timber 

 man, and other officials are in the Chippewa reservation country making a 

 start under the provisions of the Morris timber bill. Mr. Bruce has charge 

 of the work in the field, selecting about 230,000 acres for reforestation, and 

 Mr. Pinchot is here in a supervisory capacity. 



"The reforestation of these lands is one of the most important jobs brought 

 before the bureau. The lands are to be made a forest reservation under con- 

 trol of the bureau. A certain amount of ripe timber is to be sold annually, and 

 the land will be reforested according to the most advanced ideas of the bureau. 



"For the first time, therefore, the government is making an attempt on a 

 large scale to have economical logging operations conducted along forestry 

 principles. A tract of thirty square miles is to be operated along these lines, 

 and it is the selection of these lands that is occupying the attention of Pinchot 

 and Bruce and their assistants." 



PREMIUMS OFFERED ON APPLES AT THE COMING 

 WINTER MEETING. 



3d 1st 2d 



Prem. Prem. Prem. 



Collection of apples not to exceed 10 varieties $2.00 6.00 4.00 



Each variety of apples (or crabs) included in the 1901 fruit 

 list of this society, or in the 1901 premium list of the 



Minnesota State Fair (kept in cold storage) 50 .25 



Each variety of apples (or crabs) included in the 1901 fruit 

 list of this society, or in the 1901 premium list of the 



Minnesota State Fair (not kept in cold storage) 50 .25 



Peck of Wealthy apples, the fruit exhibited to be at the dis- 

 posal of the meeting 2.00 1.00 



Early Winter Seedling. — The fruit shown must have been grown by 

 the owner of the original tree and not kept in cold storage. A specimen of 

 wood three years old (at least six inches long) taken from the tree bearing the 

 apples shown, and a concise history and description of the tree and its fruit, 

 must accompany each entry. 



Competition is open to all except on such varieties as are being propagated 

 for sale by some person other than the originator. Successful competitors 

 who are not members of the society will be made so for the current year by 

 deducting one dollar, the annual fee, from the amount ©f the award. 



Premium will be divided pro rata among all the entries commended by 

 the judges, according to the comparative merit of each as a commercial fruit. 



Premium $25. 

 L.ATE Winter Seedlings. — Same conditions as for early winter variety 

 except that if found necessary the fruit shown may be retained and final de- 

 cision reserved till later in the winter. Premium $50. 



