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Premiums on Fruit at the State Fair. — The exact figures are 

 not at hand, but the revised list for the current year shows an in- 

 crease of about $100. on fruit and some $40. on flowers. There will be 

 separate lists of single plates of apples for amateurs and profes- 

 sionals, and most of the other suggestions offeredlooking tothe im- 

 provement of the list have been carried out, at least as far as could 

 be done within the limits of the amount allowed this department. 

 The new rules require stricter compliance with necessary regu- 

 lations to make the exhibit a more thorough success. They will 

 probably be published in full in the next number. 



Arbor Day, April 30, 1897.— Prof. W. W. Pendergast, State Supt. 

 of Public Instruction, has issued a circular calling attention to this 

 now generally observed holiday and suggesting methods of in- 

 creasing its helpfulness. There are other places than school grounds, 

 however, where the results of an observance of this anniversary may 

 be made to appear, though the most pleasing and improving feature 

 of this occasion is without doubt the interest aroused in the chil- 

 dren in the planting and adornment of the school grounds. But we 

 can all help celebrate and ought to by planting somewhere at least 

 one anniversary tree on Arbor Day. 



Local Fruit Grower's Association.— The card of the "Crescent 

 Fruit Grower's Association," lies before the writer, with the name of 

 W. S. Widmoyer, one of our well known members, as its secretary. 

 There are some forty fruit growers connected with this organization, 

 and through this agency they supply themselves with berry box 

 material and sell their fruit, the secretary doing easily at slight ex- 

 pense what otherwise must be done by each grower separately in 

 the disposal of his crop, to say nothing of the saving in prices to 

 them in everj^ direction on account of the largeness of the deal. 

 The growers, whenever at all practicable, should band together in 

 this way, and such an act will go far to solve the problem of the 

 present low profits of fruit culture. 



The Arizona Everbearing Strawberry.— Our old fellow mem- 

 ber, W. E. Brimhall, now of San Diego , California, speaks in the 

 following interesting way of this novel fruit: 



"I planted out on the 27th day of January, 1896, 150 strawberry 

 plants of the Arizona Everbearing variet}''. They all grew and com- 

 menced to fruit, and in April I picked five quarts, May fourteen 

 quarts, June nine quarts, July twenty-five quarts, August thirtj'- 

 two quarts, September nine quarts. Total ninety-four quarts. Some 

 of the largest berries measured four and five inches around, and 

 one measured seven inches. The plants were set eighteen inches 

 apart, both ways. 



"In July, the plants sent out many runners, which were given 

 plenty of room on the two outside rows. I have sold 2,300 plants at 

 $1 per 100, and have a good set of fruit on plants set in September. 

 This satisfies me that we can have good, fresh, ripe strawberries 

 grown at home, and full measure." 



