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becoming one of our most useful and prominent members. (For por- 

 trait and biography see "Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota," 

 1900, page 281.) 



Mr. C. Chaddcrdon, of Windoni, had been a member of the so 

 ciety but two years. Of his personal history, date and circumstances 

 of his death, your committee are not informed. 



Mr. H. W. S. Cleveland died at his home in Chicago on 

 Dec. 5, 1900, and your committee have not learned the particulars 

 concerning his decease, but trust that some one will furnish for pub- 

 lication in our magazine a suitable biography of this useful man. 

 He was a landscape architect of the highest order, and always deeply 

 interested in other branches of horticulture. His greatest sphere of 

 usefulness, throughout a long and well spent life, was in improving, 

 embellishing and beautifying parks, cemeteries, college and school 

 grounds, and the artistic ornamentation of the suburban residences or 

 city homes of Chicago and Minneapolis. He was an active mem- 

 ber of the American Pomological Society in its earlier years, and one 

 of the band of renowned horticulturists who had a place in its or- 

 ganization in 1848. . He was a delegate from the New Jersey Horti- 

 cultural Society at that time, to meet in New York with delegates 

 from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and other states for that purpose. 

 At that time Marshall P. Wilder was elected its first president, and 

 he was honored with that proud position until the day of his death 

 on the 1 6th day of December, 1886. 



These worthy members have closed their earthly pilgrimage, 

 but their labors in our cause will live on to bless our state and the 

 world, and their names will be treasured up in uur memories as pub- 

 lic benefactors. 



Keeping Onions Over Winter.- — Either keep them constantly but a 

 few degrees above freezing, having a thermometer and a kerosene stove in 

 the cellar ready for emergencies, or else lay them 18 inches thick on tlie 

 floor in some outbuilding, and as soon as cold weather sets in with freezing 

 temperature, cover with swamp hay, not far from two feet in depth, with 

 about the same thickness of hay between the onions and the side of the 

 building. 



Do not uncover or disturb in any way until freezing weather is past, 

 nor then until just about ready to sell. It will be best for the frost to come 

 out before any of the hay is removed, but if it is desired to market before 

 the frost would naturally leave, then take off a part, never all, of the hay 

 to promote thawing. When cellar-kept, they would better be on platform 

 and piled not over 10 inches deep. — J. J. H. Gregory. 



