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all the regular exhibitors ami a number of others who have not heretofore been 

 with us. What have you in the way of fruit you can bring to the next state 

 fair and help to fill up handsomely this "spick and span" new building that is 

 to be hereafter "the building" of our fair. Very liberal premiums are offered 

 for fruits and flowers, and you will find that there is good compensation in con- 

 nection with such an exhibit, to say nothing of the larger pleasure of meeting 

 with those having a common interest on such an occasion. 



An Inquiry as to Top-working. — ^.-'May we not hear from your corre- 

 spondents who have tested changing over bearing trees by either top-grafting 

 or budding whether they find it successful and profitable at the north. Before 

 Mr. A. W. Sias moved from Minnesota, there was a pretty extensive trial of 

 changing over orchard trees, some in bearing and some younger, some grafted 

 up in the tops and some in the trunks and some at the surface on E. B. Jor- 

 dan's, for that day, large orchards, near Rochester, Minn. I have never heard 

 whether that experiment succeeded. For all I know top-working by cleft 

 grafting or budding may be considered too risky in our northwestern climate. 

 As varieties better adapted to our severe climate are grown and more at- 

 tention is paid to horticulture, grafting and budding will be more common 

 in the west. Hurry up the hardy varieties." — F. K. Phoenix, Delavan, Wis. 

 May 11, 1901. 



Reply through the "Horticulturist." — Secretary. 



"Agricultural Experiments," A New Minnesota Monthly. — 

 Under the above title, Mr. T. T. Bicheller, of Minneapolis, an enthusiastic, 

 member of this society, issued in April the first number of a monthly journal 

 which is to occupy a unique field, its purpose being to present to its readers 

 the "meat," in a digestible form, of the woik of experimentation now being 

 carried on most comprehensively by the agricultural experiment stations of 

 the country, both public and private. As every state in the Union has such a 

 station, liberally equipped and hard at work, to say nothing of a long list of 

 subordinate and other similar stations, there is seen to be a limitless supply of 

 miterial at hand for such a publication, which if properly handled will result 

 in large ben-fit to both the editor and his readers. The gentleman at the head 

 of this enterprise is a man of push and intends to make this a success. Twenty- 

 four pages, momhly, 50 cents per year. Address Boston Block, Minneapolis. 

 This first number starts out with a salutatory by Prof. S. B. Green. 



Massachusetts HorTicultur.il Hall. — The new hall of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society is now completed and is to be opened the 29th of 

 May with a unique exhibition. A local paper describes it as follows: 



"The show will be one of the most remarkable in horticultural annals in that 

 the exhibitors will be practically anonymous and the arrangement of the flow- 

 ers entirely in the hands of one man, Professor Charles S. Sargent, of the 

 Arnold Arboretum. 



"The first floor of the new building will be given wholly to the flowers, which 

 will be displayed in great masses of color, the Hunnevvell rhododendrons, for 

 example, filling an entire end of the large earth- floored exhibition hall and 

 the rest of the room being filled with the azaleas to which Professor Sargent 

 has given fifty years of careful and scientific cultivation. In the smaller exhi- 

 bition room the orchids will occupy the centre, and along the sides, through 

 the vestibule and in the great lecture hall there will be thousands and thou- 

 sands of other blossoms." 



