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Show of Apples at the Winter Meeting. — Over 900 plates of apples 

 were exhibited at the winter meeting a year ago, and judging by reports from 

 tnanv quarters the exhibit of fruit this year is to be still larger. Arrange- 

 ments are being made for ample accommodations for this great exhibit. Every 

 member is urged to contribute liberally towards this comprehensive display. 

 Bring what you have and help it along. Liberal premiums are offered as an 

 assistance to those who are put to some expense in connection with the 

 exhibit. 



A Welcome Visitor from Nebrask.\. — Rev. C. S. Harrison, of York' 

 Neb., is to be the guest of the horticultural society at our coming annual 

 meeting and at some time during the meeting will deliver an address on the 

 "Forward Movement in Horticulture." Mr. Harrison is well known throughout 

 . the country as one of the authorities upon horticultural subjects and equally 

 so for his ability to tell very well the thing he knows. He will read also dur- 

 ing the meeting a paper on the culture of peonies, a subject to which he has 

 given a great deal of attention, and probably no one in this country is better 

 informed in regard to it. 



The Harris Memorial Tablet. — The committee having this matter in 

 charge have succeeded in securing a most excellent model for the making of 

 this tablet, and it is now being cast in bronze by one of the best bronze workers 

 in America. It is expected that the tablet will be done in time to be seen at 

 the annual meeting. It represents Mr. Harris in profile sitting in a character- 

 istic posture holding an apple and taking notes. The model, as seen by the 

 committee, is very lifelike and surprisingly so when it is considered that the 

 only profile photograph that could be secured was a very obscure snap shot 

 taken by an amateur with a small camera. The result of this work will be 

 satisfactory to the society. 



A Society for Horticultural Science was organized at the recent 

 meeting of the American Pomological Society at Boston. The object in organ- 

 izing this society is to provide a central organization in which horticultural 

 investigators may meet and discuss the more technically scientific parts of 

 their work. The society will thus naturally have to do with botanical, chem- 

 ical, physical and similar problems of horticulture. It will not duplicate the 

 work of the American Pomological Society nor of any other existing horticu'- 

 tural society, but it will make the interests of these other societies its interests, 

 and will study some of the same questions, from another point of view. It will 

 aim to promote the scientific aspects of horticultural investigation, and to aid 

 in reducing the present great body of horticultural knowledge to a more 

 strictly scientific form. Membership in the society is open, under certain con- 

 ditions, to persons engaged in horticultural teacbing or investigation. Prof. 

 L. H. Bailey, of Ithaca, N. Y., was elected president and Prof. S. A. Beach, of 

 Geneva, N. Y. , secretary. — O J. Farmer. 



"Apples and Apple Growing in Minnesota." — This is the title of a 

 bulletin just issued from the IMinnesota Agricultuial Exp^iiment Station by 

 Prof. Samuel B. Green. Its title very fully indicates its contents. Its opening 

 fifteen pages are used to give in a concise way practical methods applicable 

 to the cultivation of apples in Minnesota. The two following pages are used 

 in the explanation of the terms employed in the description of varieties. Then 

 follows for ten pages a concise and accurate description of "'such varieties of 

 apples as are of interest to the fruit grower of this region, including the 

 most of those for which the state fairs and horticultural societies offer prem- 

 iums." The remainder of the bulletin, some fifty pages, is filled with half- 



