C!ecretary's (^orr^er. 



Did you Attend the Summer Meeting ?— If not you are much ihe loser. 

 Read the account of it on another page of this number and resolve to be with 

 us another year and so on, ad infinitum, to the end. Fruits and flowers, a host 

 of kind friends united by a common interest and a surcease of care were the 

 lot of those of us who were there. 



Frost May 25th. — "Tender things such as squash, tomatoes, beans, cu- 

 cumbers, melons and the tips of grapes are frozen; also potatoes and corn, but 

 not to a great extent. I think it is hard on grape blossoms, also on raspber- 

 ries and strawberries. Plum crop very small in this section, about one-quarter 

 of a crop. Apples are fair but trees not bearing full crop." 



May 25th, 1901. Martin Penning, Sleepy Eye. 



Cheery Words — "I thought of you people yesterday when I mulched with 

 my hands a nice top-worked tree that Dartt named "Ditus Day" when he sent 

 me cions. My grounds, trees, last year's buds and this year's grafts never 

 looked finer. Strawberries and fifty trees of Early Richmond cherries are 

 well loaded and just getting ripe. Robins in abundance, and they act as if 

 they were sole owners here." 



June 15th, 1901. A. J. Philips, West Salem, Wis. 



Why is the Martha a Light Bearer? — "Although the bloom was 

 light on most varieties of apples, the Martha bloomed exceedingly heavy, and 

 the frost of May 24th and 25th entirely killed the Martha fruit stalks, whereas 

 the Whitney No. 20, Virginia, Early Strawberry, Wealthy, Duchess, etc., were 

 not injured at all. This may account in some measure for the complaint that 

 the Martha is a shy or tardy bearer. Certain it is that it did not stand the 

 frost that other varieties did." C. E. Oi,der, Luverne, Minn. 



Inquiry About the Cork Bark Elm.—'* Is not the Cork Bark or Rock 

 Elm a very desirable and very much neglected hardy northern native shade 

 tree? Will not some of your able contributors knowing both the common 

 White and the much less common Cork Bark Elm give your readers a com- 

 parison between the two? A Wisconsin nurseryman writes: "The Cork Bark 

 I think the handsomest of the Elms, its leaf larger than the White Elm leaf, 

 its seed much larger and growth slower.' " 



June 12, 1901. F. K. Phoenix, Delavan, Wis. 



Sure Death eor Cut Worms.— Wyman Elliot stands sponsor for the 

 following "sure thing": Mis one pound of Paris green thoroughly with a 



