200 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



this spring, in quantities as desired. This variety bids fair to be one of the 

 best evergreens for ornamental or timber plantings and should be given a trial. 

 Ver}- rapid grower, hardy, graceful and of beautiful color and appearance. 

 Instructions given with order. Apply at once to Geo. W. Strand, Secy., 

 Taylors Falls, Minn. 



New Quarters for Horticulture at the State Fair.— The state 

 legislature, at the session lately adjourned, made an appropriation of $25,000 

 to pay the cost of erecting an agricultural building on state fair grounds. This 

 structure, the contract for the erection of vphich will soon be let, is to be for 

 the joint use of both agriculture and horticulture, though the term "Agricul- 

 tural Hall" is not an incorrect title, the general term, agriculture, embracing 

 also horticulture and other kindred subdivisions. As near as can be judged by 

 the plans under consideration, the building will be some three times the size 

 of the present "Horticultural Hall," and will furnish ample space for both in- 

 terests. The fruit and flower displays will probably be allotted a space some- 

 what larger than in the old building. Will yoii be there next September to 

 help "shine up" the new quarters? 



The Ox-Fyed Daisy a Legal Outcast.— Among the laws passed by 

 the late session of the state legislature is one directed towards the extermina- 

 tion of this most familiar flower. As a law it has been made sufficiently drastic. 

 Under it one may be imprisoned ninety days for allowing this plant to grow on 

 any land he owns or controls. Should this law be successfully enforced most 

 of the owners of unoccupied real estate in this city would from now on for 

 some time be transacting business from the interior of the county jail. It 

 might be well, as an educator and an object lesson, in the case of this and 

 similiar laws, for the public authorities to set an example by exterminating 

 plants so interdicted upon the public highways and on other lands under public 

 control, or otherwise they should consistently arrest, fine and imprison them- 

 selves. Until this is done it is hardly to be expected that private citizens will 

 generally heed these laws and they will remain, as in the past, practically dead 

 letters. Let the public set the example — and they will do it when there is a suf- 

 ficiently strong public sentiment behind them to secure a general enforcement. 

 Such laws are in the right direction, but our people need to be educated up to 

 them. 



Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Tuttle Celebrate Sixty-Third Wedding An- 

 niversary. — Mr. A. G. Tuttle, of Baraboo, Wis., has been for many years an 

 honorary life member of this society, an honor he is fully entitled to by reason 

 of his long services to the horticulture of the northwest. He and his wife have 

 lately celebrated a wedding anniversary much beyond the usual alotted limit 

 of the average married couple. "They were married in Northfield, Conn., and 

 came to Wisconsin in 1846, settling in Madison, where Mr. Tuttle was for a 

 short time engaged in the mercantile business. In the spring of 1847 he went 

 to Portage and opened the first store in that place. A year later he removed 

 to Baraboo where he and his wife has resided ever since. Mr. Tuttle started 

 the first nursery in the state and is still engaged in that business. He has 

 always taken an active part in horticultural affairs and served several years as 

 president of the State Horticultural Society. He was the first nurseryman to 

 introduce the Russian apple trees into this country. Notwithstanding his age, 

 87 years, Mr. Tuttle is still active and walks to town, nearly two miles, almost 

 every day for his mail. His wife is 84 years of age and has been an 

 invalid for several years. They have four sons, A. Clark, of Baraboo; Herbert, 

 of Mather; Edward, of St. Paul; and Merritt, of Ft. Morgan, Colo." 



