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A City Outing for our Members.— Those of our members living outside 

 of the Twin Cities have as much of a right to a city outing in the winter as 

 the city people have for a country outing in the summer. The meeting of the 

 horticultural society gives you just the opportunity needed. A low rate to 

 the meeting and special rates at the hotels, an interesting program during the 

 sessions of the meeting, the reception to the ladies of the society on Wednes- 

 day forenoon, and the society banquet Thursday evening— all these combine 

 — and add to this the other opportunities that come to the occasional visitor 

 in the city — making an irresistible attraction. Turn over the cares of home to 

 some one else for a few days and come in and enjoy this occasion with us! 



Discussions at the Annuai. Meeting. — The program allows for a litlle 

 more discussion this year than for some years past, but is still a very full one. 

 Members purposing to attend should look this program over carefully and 

 consider what subjects they would like to express an opinion upon and be pre- 

 pared to participate in the discussions that follow the reading of the papers- 

 The papers read at our meeting are short, a limit of 1,000 words being re- 

 quested, which will give considerable time for discussions, that are likely to 

 be the most interesting part of the session . The discussions are open to any 

 one present to take part in, and absolute freedom in this respect is desired. 

 Don't wait to be called upon by the presiding officer, but take the floor at once 

 and give us briefly and concisely your thought on the subject under consid- 

 eration. 



The Minnesota Fruit Exhibit at St. Louis. — A letter received under 

 date of Nov. 12th from Mr. Thorns Redpath, in charge of the Minnesota Fruit 

 Exhibit at St. Louis, says on that day the?e are on exhibition with the state ex- 

 hibit 165 glass jars of fruit, 497 plates of apples, 21 of grapes and 44 of cran- 

 berries, and speaking of the fruit on exhibition there he says, "We have nearly 

 500 plates of apples on exhibition, and it is nice fruit." A letter from Geo. 

 W. Strand from the World's Fair, written a week earlier, says in regard to 

 this exhibit, "I hear nothing but favorable remarks about our exhibit and 

 fruit, and it surprises the majority when they see it is Minnesota, 'that far 

 north.' " No fruit has been sent for the use of the Minnesota exhibit since 

 Nov. 5th, and word from Mr. Redpath is to the effect that no more will be 

 needed to maintain the exhibit till the fair closes. What is said here in 

 regard to the Minnesota exhibit applies equally well to the newer feature of 

 the exhibit, the windmill, heretofore spoken of, erected by the jewell Nursery 

 Company in September as a part of the state fruit exhibit. Evidently no 

 single feature in Horticultural Hall is attracting as much attention as the 

 windmill. It was a master stroke of good policy on the part of the commis- 

 sion in having this striking exhibit transferred from our state fair to the 

 World's Fair. In an early number of our magazine, probably the January 

 number, in connection with the publication of the report of the World's 

 Fair exhibit, photographs of both of these Minnesota fruit exhibits will be 

 published, which will give an opportunity to those of our readers who have 

 not been privileged to attend the fair to see what Minnesota is doing for its 

 horticultural department. 



