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leave in a very few days and expect to be gone all the summer and 

 fall. The few plants we already have from this dry inland region are 

 hardy here and hardy far up into Manitoba and N. W. Territory. 

 Hence, we hope to get many plants of value for the prairie North- 

 west, and we will try to get as complete a collection as possible. I 

 hope to tell you more about it when I get back to Brookings." 



The Loganberry in Rhode Island. — The Rhode Island State 

 Experiment Station have just issued a bulletin devoted entirely to 

 this new fruit, supposed to be a cross with a European red rasp- 

 berry and a California blackberry. In appearance of vine, manner 

 of growth and, in fact, nearly everything except color and flavor of 

 the fruit, it is like the parent blackberry, but the fruit is red and has 

 a "slight but distinct" raspberry flavor. The bulletin says it "is 

 the most promising new type of small fruit that has been grown at 

 this station." When covered with earth over winter, they have been 

 found entirely hardy, and as the canes make a long, flexible growth 

 and lie naturally along the ground it is a very easy matter so to pro- 

 tect them. This curious variety propagates itself from tips, like the 

 black raspberrjr, and that rather sparingly, and to supply the de- 

 mand for it, some unscrupulous dealers are said to be sending out 

 under this name plants grown from its seed, which germinate read- 

 ily but almost always produce fruit of an inferior qualitj'. It orig- 

 inated with Judge J. H. Logan, in Santa Cruz, Cal., in 1881, 



New Rules Governing Fruit and Flowers at the State 

 Fair. — Your attention is called to the new rules in our department 

 at the fair, and do not fail to go over them all carefully and become 

 conversant with them if you expect to be an exhibitor. It is the 

 purpose of the management to enforce these strictly, and especially 

 Rule 12, requiring all entries to be made before the opening of fair 

 week. The lax enforcement of this at times in the past has caused 

 an endless amount of annoyance and vexation in the department. 

 Please note that the word "positively" is printed in caps also in the 

 premium list, and that it means absolutel}'^ that no entries will be 

 made after the fair opens. The management is very desirous no 

 one should "get left" and will take every means of giving fair 

 warning. Of course, there is no danger that YOU will be barred, as 

 you have seen the warning and will make the necessary entries in 

 time. 



Enter and bring everything you can, and "don't carry all your 

 eggs in one basket." 



The New State Fair Premium List.— Secretary E. W. Randall 

 sends information that the 1897 premium list has been sent to all 

 the members of our society, and if any have failed to receive it, will 

 you please address him at Hamline, Minn., and he will correct the 

 oversight? That portion of the list in which as horticulturists you 

 will be speciall}' interested. Division G, Fruits and Flowers, will be 

 found on pages 40 to 48, and earl}' opportunity should be taken to 

 go over them carefully and select such entries as you can make. 

 Those who are not accustomed to exhibiting at fairs make the mis- 

 take of showing only a few articles, under the impression that oth- 



