440 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Are vou Coming to the Annuai, Meeting? — Which meets in Minne- 

 apolis, December 3-6 ? The meeting will be held at the Plymouth Congrega- 

 tional Church same as last year. The attendance is sure to be large, and you 

 cannot afford to stay away. Reduced railroad and hotel rates will make it an 

 economical time to visit the city, and the meeting will be found worth much 

 more than it costs. Come! 



Contents of the Program. — The program of the annual meeting will 

 include as usual programs by the State Forestry Association, the Minnesota 

 Beekeepers' Association and the Woman's Auxiliary. The annual banquet and 

 illustrated stereopticon lectures two other evenings during the session will add 

 to the interest. Come and get acquainted with the horticulturists of the north- 

 west. It will be mutually helpful. 



Visitors at the Annual Meeting. — Prospective visitors from ad- 

 joining states at our forthcoming meeting, who have expressed an inten- 

 tion to be with us are, in part, Sec'y Wesley Greene, of the Iowa Society; Prof. 

 H. C. Price, horticulturist of the Iowa Agricultural College; Prof. N. E. Han- 

 sen, of the South Dakota Agricultural College; Prof. C. B. Waldron, of the 

 North Dakota Agricultural College; A. J. Philips, of West Salem, Wis., and J. 

 L. Herbst, Secretary of the Wisconsin Society, A number of other prominent 

 horticulturists in the northwest are confidently expected. 



Minnesota Fruit at Buffalo. — The following extract from a letter from 

 Hon. H. E. Van Deman, pomologist at the Pan-American Exposition, will be 

 of interest to our readers. 



"Your state has been doing fairly well here in the way of fruit exhibits, 

 especially since they moved the big castle, which you no doubt know all about, 

 and set it up here in our building. It^is, of course, simply a matter of orna- 

 ment, but they have fjuite a variety of fruit that gives it some pomological 

 value. They have not devoted much money to the horticultural display and 

 not nearly so much as I think they should have given to it." 



PREMIUMS OFFERED ON SEEDLING APPLES. 



A special effort is being made to get out a large show of valuable keeping 

 seedling apples at the coming annual meeting of this society, and with this 

 end in view unusual premiums are being offered, as follows: 



''EARLY WINTER FA R/E TV.— The fruit shown must have been 

 grown by the owner of the original tree and not kept in cold storage. A spe- 

 cimen of wood three years old (at least six inches long) taken from the tree 

 bearing the apples shown, and a concise history and description of the tree 

 and its fruit, must accompany each entry. 



" Competition is open to all except on such varieties as are being propagated 

 for sale by some person other than the originator. Successful competitors 

 who are not members of the society will be made so for the current year by 

 deducting one dollar, the annual fee, from the amount of the award. 



" Premium will be divided pro rata among all the entries commended by 

 the judges, according to the comparative merit of each as a commercial fruit. 

 Premium, $20.00." 



"LATE WINTER VARIETY.— Sam^ conditions as for early winter 

 variety, except that if found necessary the fruit shown may be retained and 

 final decision reserved till later in the winter. Premium, $40.00." 



For other premiums see premium list to be found with the program. 



