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The past spring has been an ideal one for setting out evergreens 

 and other trees, and we have added the following varieties this 

 season to our experimental work : 



From Edson Gaylord, Nora Spring, Iowa, (Gay lord's descrip- 

 tion) apples, Gaylord's Red, Old Smokehouse, Redstreaked, Rolph, 

 Fall Queen, Fall Russett, Twenty Ounce Pippin, Starr (like 

 Patten Greening only ten times better). Lord Dunsmore and Lady 

 Sweet. 



From J. S. Parks, Pleasant Mounds, Minn., Wolf River apple. 



From J. S. Wood, of Windom, Minn., some sprouts of his large 

 Yellow Plum and his large Red Plum, and also some seedling 

 hybrids between our native and Japan plums. 



From H. A. Terry, Crescent City, Iowa, the following varieties of 

 plum trees : Craig, Coinage, Brackett, Venus, Golden Queen, El- 

 dorado, Ruby, Colman and Golden. 



From E. D. Cowles, of Vermilion, S. D., the following plum and 

 cherry trees: cherries, Bessarabian, E. Richmond, Montmorency, 

 Homer, English Morello ; plums. Miner, Newport, Newman, Hawk- 

 eye, Baldwin and Aitkin. These trees from Mr. Cowles are all on 

 their own roots. 



The following varieties of strawberry plants were received from 

 the North Star Strawberry Plant Farm, Cokato. Minn.: Sample, 

 Ruby, Excelsior, Monitor, Bush Cluster, Michigan, Margaret and 

 Klondike. 



HORTICULTURAL BUILDING AT THE ST. LOUIS 

 EXPOSITION. 



The Palace of Horticulture at the World's Fair at St. Louis is 

 on the summit of Skinker Hill, and is separated from the Palace of 

 Agriculture by 250 feet of model landscape gardens. It forms an 

 immense Greek cross and contains besides ample floor room a 

 conservatory, heating and cold storage plants. 



The beautiful palace, 400 by 800 feet in it^ extreme measure- 

 ments is in the form of a cross with a center pavillion, 400 feet 

 square, and two wings, each 204 by 230 feet. The wings are divided 

 from the center pavillion by glass partitions, and the floor of each 

 is nine feet lower than that of the center pavillion. This difference 

 in elevation produces a monumental effect, which is further height- 

 ened by the use in the main entrance on the north front of two towers 

 150 feet high. 



The eastern wing of the building is almost entirely of glass and 

 will be used as a conservatory. A water heating plant is to be in- 

 stalled in the cellar, and the pipes are led throughout the wing. 

 Plants will be forced during the winter and early spring for out- 

 door planting, and in the conservatories will be kept tropical plants. 

 At the close of the exposition many of the valuable plants that 



