438 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Bui,LETiNS ON Horticulture from the South Dakota Experiment 

 Station. — Prof. N. E. Hansen, horticulturist at the South Dakota station, 

 has issued during the past year three bulletins on horticultural topics, one on 

 "Early Garden Peas," another on "Breeding Hardy Fruits," and a third on 

 the "Western Sand Cherry." The two last named will be of large interest to 

 the fruit growers of our state. Copies can undoubtedly be secured by address- 

 ing Prof Hansen at Brookings, S. D. Both of these bulletins are well illu- 

 strated and go very much into detail as to the work in improving fruits that 

 is being done at the South Dakota station. 



The Convention of Horticultural Societies. — This gathering to- 

 gether of the officers of the state horticultural societies of the country was 

 held, as announced, on Oct. 26th in Horticultural Hall at the World's Fair. 

 No report of the meeting is yet at hand. Mr. Frank Yahnke, of Winona, who 

 is at this time assisting at the Minnesota exhibit at the fair, presented the first 

 topic to the meeting, "How to Increase the Membership of a Horticultural 

 Society." Mr. Yahnke has had an opportunity to watch the process in Min- 

 nesota and is well qualified to speak on the subject. 



A. H. Reed and the McLeod County Horticultural Socity.— Cap- 

 tain A. H. Reed, of Glencoe, one of the enthusiastic workers in this scciely, 

 has during the past year succeeded in organizing a local society in his vicinity, 

 called the McLeod County Horticultural Society, with a membership of nine- 

 teen who have joined the organization as a result of his personal solicitation. 

 There ought to be an organization of this kind in every county of the state, 

 and there would be if in each county there was a member with the degree of 

 zeal and impulse for service shown by Captain Reed. 



Bringing out the Apple Seedlings. — "A good way to bring out the 

 seedlings in the state is for the county fair managers to offer liberal premiums 

 on seedling apples. 



"At our recent county fair nine premiums were offered on seedlings, as fol- 

 lows: three premiums from three dollars down on sour winter apples, three 

 premiums from three dollars down on sweet winter apples and three premiums 

 from three dollars down on fall apples. As a result about thirty .seedlings were 

 exhibited, and out of the lot about twenty were from trees sent out by Mr. 

 Gideon many years ago. The farmers here are sufficiently aroused so that every 

 road-side tree is being watched and now and then one transplanted to the 

 home grounds." L. P. H. Higby, Sec'y So. Minn. Hort. Soc'y. 



Green's Vegetable Gardening as a Premium. —This very practical 

 work on vegetable gardening by Prof. Samuel B. Green is now offered with a 

 substantial paper binding at a price that the horticultural society can afford to 

 give it as a premium in connection with the securing of new members to 

 the society. Any membar sending in a new member for the year 1905 may 

 now receive a copy of this book. It occupies the same field as regards the 

 growing of vegetables that "Amateur Fruit Growing" does to growing fruit 

 and will be found of equal value, to those interested in this subject. A copy 

 can be purchased of the secretary also for $ .50 postpaid. 



Fruit Exhibit at the Annu.^l Meeting.— It is the ambition of the 

 officers of the horticultural society to make the fruit exhibit at the coming 

 annual meeting the largest ever shown at any of our gatherings, and judging 



