SECKETARY S COENER. IQQ 



Prof. Green's Apple Bulletin. — The bulletin on apple growing now 

 some months in preparation by Prof. Samuel B. Green will be issued about 

 June 1st. It will be eminently practical in character, giving cultural direc- 

 tions in detail and will be profusely illustrated by engravings of all the leading 

 orchard fruits of the northwest. Such a publication will be greatly sought 

 after and should go into a form for preservation. We hope arrangements may 

 be made to put a suitable binding on at least a portion of the issue. 



ThE Minnesota Appropriation for the St. Louis Exposition. — The 

 late state legislature made an appropriation of $100,000 to be used for the 

 purpose of installing and maintaining a suitable exhibit of the industries and 

 resources of the state at the coming exposition at St. Louis. A board of three 

 persons has this in charge. Mr. J. M. Underwood is a member of this board, 

 as stated before in the secretary's corner. Associated with him are Conde 

 Hamlin, of St. Paul, and Theodore Hays, of Minneapolis. The members of the 

 board are not allowed any compensation for their services but may be reim- 

 bursed for personal expenses not to exceed $1,000 each. The board is limited 

 in the matter of salaries or wages to be paid to its employees to the sum of 

 $15,000. Otherwise there are no restrictions as to the uses to be made of the 

 appropriation for this exhibit. 



The List of Those Sending New Members since March 17 and up to 

 to April 21. 



Jewell Nursery Co. 26 Ole Sanderson, 1 



B. N. Lewis, 1 A. Brackett, 3 



O. Hoglund, 1 F. J. Engleson,2 



N. J. Trenham, 1 . S. B. Green, 1 



L. Johannessohn, 2 O. A. Th. Solem, 1 



Mrs. Jennie Stager, 2 Dr. A. E. Johnson, 1 



T. A. Hoverstad, 4 T. E. Cashman, 1 

 E. G. Cooley, 1 



Questions AND^I^pmES. 



Questions and Replies. —In the effort to establish a "question and an- 

 swer column" nine questions were received and published last month. Re- 

 plies to most of these will be found in that column this month, but only three 

 questions have come in. If our members are desirous of continuing this depart- 

 ment, the responsibility rests upon them. If questions come in the column 

 can be sustained, otherwise not. This is apparent. What questions have you 

 that are still unanswered? Please send them in early for the next issue. 



REPLIES. 



2. Reply. — The Wealthy apple is not placed on the list of first degree 

 of hardiness by the society because they do not consider it sufficiently hardy. 

 Yet they do consider it one of the most desirable varieties to plant excepting 

 in very severe locations. Jno. P. Andrews. 



3. Reply. — Top- working, if on hardy stock, gives the tree a hardy 

 root and body and for that reason will bring out a top that has been slightly 

 hurt by the winter better than a root and body that has also been hurt by the 

 winter. A. Brackett, Excelsior. 



