ecretary's (^orrjer. 



Have You Renewed Your Membership For 1897?— A few have 

 not yet done so, and j'ou may be of the number. The time to do a 

 thing- is when j^ou think of it, and don't forget you have friends who 

 would be meinbers also, if they understood the advantages. 



Mrs. Barnard's "Flowers for School Children."— Secretary 

 Philips says in a letter in regard to the paper read by Mrs. Barnard 

 at our late meeting on the work of the flower committee of the Min- 

 neapolis Ladies Improvement League, " I did want to commend that 

 paper that evening, it was a grand subject and so well carried out." 

 The Minneapolis ladies are planning for more extensive work in 

 this field the ensuing year. 



Subscribe for the Wisconsin Horticulturist.— By courtesy 

 of the officers of the Wisconsin society, members of the Minnesota 

 society will receive their magazine for fifty cents per annum. Re- 

 mittances for this purpose can be made to the secretary' of either 

 society. There is so much in common between these associations 

 and the territory they cover that the advantage of having both 

 magazines at hand is apparent. Ours g-o to Wisconsin members 

 at the same rate. 



Delegate to the Wisconsin and Illinois Meetings.— Prof. S. 

 B. Green is to represent our society at the annual meeting of the 

 Wisconsin society which convenes at Madison the first Tuesday in 

 February, and J. Cole Doughty, of Lake City, has gone to Spring-- 

 field, Ills, for a similar purpose. It has been a long titne since either 

 of these members have been out of the state on such an errand, if, 

 indeed, either of them ever has. We shall look for an interesting- 

 report of their " doings " and " sayings." 



Annual Meeting of Southern Minnesota Horticultural 

 Society. — The regular winter meeting of this society is to convene 

 at Albert, Lea, Minn., at 10 A. M., January 20th, 1896, and hold ses- 

 sions vintil 4 P. M. of the following day. Secretary Clarence Wedge 

 announces that "visiting members will be entertained free." 



Horticulturists in that part of the state, especially, should not naiss 

 this opportunity to burnish up their armor, as the number of en- 

 thusiasts who are regulars in that association assures a warm greet- 

 ing. 



Inter-state Park of the St. Croix.— Our Wisconsin friends 

 who are interested in promoting their share in this park are taking 

 steps to secure proper action in the matter at the coming session of 

 their state legislature, and Mr. F. H. Nutter, landscape architect, of 

 Minneapolis, at their request has spent several days examining the 

 lands on the east side of the river, surrounding the "Dalles," in or- 

 der to advise as to the proper boundaries of the park. He reports 

 it to be a remarkablj'^ beautiful and picturesque tract, and that there 

 is much local interest shown. It is to be hoped that the two states 

 will not neglect the present opportunity to secure for the future a 



