ecretary's (^ori^er. 



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Southern Minnesota Horticultural Society.— This Society is to meet 

 at Albert Lea, on Jan. 13, 14, 15. The program is not yet received. 



Appreciated — "I want to say that I regard the last number of the Horti- 

 culturist worth all I have ever paid for belonging to a Horticultural Society." 



E. D. C. 



Northeastern Iowa Society. — The annual meeting of this society was 

 held the third week in December. O. W. Moore, the delegate for our society, 

 has prepared a report on the meeting which appears in this number. 



Report of the Iowa Meeting. — The annual meeting of the Iowa State 

 Horticultural Society was held in Des Moines the second week in December. 

 Prof. Green represented our society there, and his report appears in this 

 number of the Horticulturist. 



Report OF THE Woman's Auxiliary. — The annual report of the secre- 

 tary of the Woman's Auxiliary as to the work of that organization will appear 

 in the February Horticulturist, together with some of the topics presented by 

 the women at the last annual meeting. 



The Minnesota State Agricultural Society— holds its annual meet- 

 ing in St. Paul Jan. 13, 14, 15. The program for this meeting is not at hand 

 at this writing. Horticulture is to be represented in the person of Prof. Green, 

 who is to speak on some pertinent topic. 



Agriculture in the Rural Schools —"It may be that your society will 

 be interested to know that we are issuing a bulletin of 2 1 pages, giving practi- 

 cal exercises in agriculture and housekeeping for rural schools. The type is 

 all set, and the book will be printed at an early (]ate." (Prof.) W. M. Hays. 



Errata.— Page 263, Report of 1902, 4lh line from bottom of the page, 

 read "Wabasha county," in place of "Pewaukee;" and in the last line of the 

 page strike out " where the Duches* originated." Readers curious to trace 

 the origin of the Dachess apple are referred to the Report of 1884, page 287. 



Oliver Gibbs. 



From Red River Valley. — "Trees and shrubs go into winter quarters in 

 a good condition. The fall has been wet so the soil is full of moisture. A cy- 

 clone in June cut our apple crop short. Had only a few barrels. The 

 Duchess were the first to ripen and were a fine lot. The Wealthy is promis- 

 ing." O. A. Th. Solem. 



Halstad, Dec. 1, '02. 



Horticulture at St. Louis Exposition. — Frederick W. Taylor, the 

 superintendent of both agriculture and horticulture at the coming exposition, 

 visited in our office Dec. 12th. He reports a fruit exhibit as assured from 

 every state in the Union, counting in Minnesota of course. What will we do 

 to help make this assurance an accomplished fact? 



Winnipeg HorTiculturalSociety. — The annual meeting of the Manitoba 

 Horticultural Society, techinally called the Western Horticultural Society, was 

 held in Winnipeg, December 30, 1902. The program, which covers three 



