Secretary's (^ori^er. 



Program for Annual Meeting. — The next annual meeting of 

 our society convenes December 7th. The program is now in prepa- 

 ration and will be found in the December Horticulturist, which will 

 be issued about November 20th, ten days earlier than usual on that 

 account. 



Are Your Dues Paid for 1897? — A few on our roll have over- 

 looked this interesting part of our work, and should be reminded 

 that another annual fee, that for 1898, will become due December 

 7th, and not be caught with a double charge against them. Remit- 

 tances for either or both fees are now in order. 



Annual Meeting of Northeastern Iowa Horticultural So- 

 ciety. — The regular yearly gathering of our sister society will be 

 held at Forest City, la., November 30th, and December 1st and 2d. 

 Mr. O. M. Lord, of Minnesota City, will represent our society on that 

 occasion. Program not yet received. 



Ahead of Time. — The editor was a little previous in his statement 

 last month that J. Cole Doughty's " How to Run a Nursery " had 

 been published in an earlier number of our magazine. It had been 

 published earlier, but in " The American Nurseryman," to whom it 

 was loaned by request some months since. It appears in this num- 

 ber and will be found "spicy." 



Prof. Otto Lugger Back from Europe.— Since early summer 

 Prof. Lugger has been in Europe, but the last of October finds him 

 back to his familiar field at the Minnesota Experiment Station. In 

 his absence he has visited many of the European countries, and has 

 much to tell us of the new and old in the entomology of the east. 

 He comes back with renewed vigor and is already finding new in- 

 sects at home, some of which we don't need but may hear more 

 about later. 



Home Again. — Mr. J. S. Harris is at home again, October 19th, after 

 an absence of soine weeks at Eureka Springs, Ark., where he has 

 been in seach of the fountain of perpetual youth. We hope he has 

 found it and drank deeply therefrom. His absence is the excuse for 

 the non-appearance of the Calendar in our last two issues. Mr. Har- 

 ris found great delight in looking over the wonderful orchard de- 

 velopments in the Ozark region and eating "possum." He came 

 back full of new ideas and experience.which, as usual, he will divide 

 with hia friends. 



