Secretary's (^ori^er. 



Are You Saving Apples to bring to the annual meeting? In the case 

 of seedlings, if possible, bring enough to show two plates, at least eight speci- 

 m ins, one plate for testing at the time and one for keeping. 



Delegate from Iowa — The Iowa state society is to be represented at 

 our next annual meeting by Mr. F. E. Pease, of Des Moines, one of the Iowa 

 nurserymen, and specially interested in growing ornamentals. 



Delegate from Wisconsin — Pres. T. E. Loope, of the Wisconsin State 

 Horticultural Society, will represent that organization at our coming annual 

 meeting. Mr. Loope has been for several years president of that society. His 

 home is at Eureka, Wis., where he is engaged in the nursery business. 



Apple Blossoms in Sept. — September 28th is a pretty late date for apple 

 blossoms in this latitude, but the writer saw two crab trees in bloom on that 

 day. Many strawberries have been gathered fully ripe this month in Minne- 

 sota also, until fresh strawberries for supper in September is no longer such a 

 novelty. 



Place of Annual Meeting.— Our society is to convene in its annual 

 session in the same quarters occupied by us for that purpose the past two years, 

 Plymouth Congregational Church, in Minneapolis. Suitable decorations will 

 be arranged and springs put on all doors to insure quietness during the meet- 

 ings. Are you coming? 



A New Strawberry Pest. — Prof. Washburn, entomologist at the state 

 experiment station, has run across another insect that preys on the fruit of the 

 strawberry, eating its seeds, and occasionally so far forgetting itself as to in- 

 dulge in a little feast on the pulp. In at least one field it has been found to 

 have done serious damage. In an early number the professor will have some- 

 thing to say of economic value to our readers about this creature. 



Transplanting the Apple in the Northwest. — By request in this 

 number are published extracts from an article of the above title prepared for the 

 last annual meeting of the Wisconsin Society, preceded by lists of replies to 

 questions addressed to seventeen leading orchardists in the northwest, of which 

 the extracts referred to are in large part a partial analysis. These lists are 

 "meaty" and should be studied. They gave the writer many new thoughts of 

 an interesting and practical character. 



An Entertaining Lecture. — Mr. P. V. Collins, well known to our 

 members as publisher of the Northwestern Agriculturist, is to contribute ma- 

 terially to the interest of our annual gathering by giving us his popular lecture 

 on Mexico, the outcome of a personal trip he made there not long since. It 

 will be profusely illustrated by the stereopticon. Members of the society can 

 secure complimentary tickets of the secretary at the meeting without charge. 

 The date is likely to be set for Wednesday evening, Dec. 3, at our place of 

 meeting. 



