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will be above the refrigerator cases a gallery for the pleasure of visitors, etc., 

 and in a general way the plans will be similar to those used for the Chicago 

 exhibit. There is, however, besides this, to be an office on the ground floor 

 on the narrow side of this installation, the space occupied being a five sided 

 space. 



A State Horticui^tural Society in North Dakota.— On Jan. 21, 

 in the city of Fargo, N. D., was organized the North Dakota State Horticul- 

 tural Society with an annual membership roll of about 90 in number and one 

 life member, Chas. B. Clark of Minneapolis, also a life member of the Minne- 

 sota Society. The Grain Growers' Association was meeting in Fargo at that 

 time and gave up the session of Thursday morning, the 21st inst., to the 

 general consideration of the subject of horticulture. About 300 were in at- 

 tendance and sufficiently interested in the program and in the organization of 

 the society to remain until thirty minutes past the dinner hour. Mr. T. A. 

 Hoverstad,of Crookston, a life member of this society, presided, and short talks 

 on different horticultural themes all leading up to the general purpose of the 

 gathering, that of organizing the society, occupied the time. Four Minnesota 

 horticulturists beside the chairman were present and spoke from the platform, 

 Mr. Wyman Elliot, Prof. William Robertson, Mr. A. K. Bush and Secretary 

 Latham. Mr. A. J. Philips of West Salem, Wis., was also there with the 

 Minnesota delegation and did loyal service. A number of North Dakota people 

 and Prof. Greely of the Farmers' Institute spoke. It was a very interesting 

 occasion. The offer of the Minnesota Society to take the members of the 

 North Dakota society upon its roll during this year as on auxiliary society and 

 to furnish them with our society publications, limited however to 100, un- 

 doubtedly had much to do with the unexpected success in creating so large a 

 roll at the outset. 



A meeting was held in the afternoon, which was very fully attended by the 

 members of the new society, and at that time the Minnesota constitution, al- 

 most in toto, was adopted as the constitution of the new society. A full line 

 of officers was also elected with Mr. Thomas Holes, of Fargo, as president and 

 Prof. C. B. Waldron as secretary. Another meeting was held in the evening, 

 and many horticultural topics were discussed in a lively way. The new 

 society starts out under the most favorable auspices, and with the push of Prof- 

 Waldron behind it is likely to prove a great success. To Prof. Waldron be- 

 longs almost entirely, we judge, the credit of working up this organization, 

 and we extend to him in this success our hearty congratulations. 



How THE World's Fair Lawn is Grown. — "The seed selected was 

 blue grass and rye grass, mixed in eciual parts. The rye grass was first in 

 evidence, but it has done the work that was required of it and has passed away. 

 The visitor will never know it existed, unless he makes inquiries and learns 

 that the blue grass is indebted for much of its beauty to its less known brother, 

 the rye grass. The rye grass peeps up in six or seven days and is a nurse crop 

 for the blue grass. It grows taller and shields the blue grass from the sun. 

 It is a perennial, and as it is not permitted to go to seed on a well regulated 

 lawn it dies out and leaves the blue grass alone on the field." 



