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their assistance was highly appreciated. A report of this meeting 
by Mr. Wedge, our society’s delegate, appears in this issue. Prof. 
L. H. Bailey, of Cornell University, spent a day with them and 
swapped experiences with the veterans of Wisconsin horticulture. 
THE “WISCONSIN HORTICULTURIST” IN 1898.—This organ of the 
Wisconsin Society is to be continued the current year, under the 
management of Mrs. Franklin Johnson, Baraboo, Wis. Subscrip- 
tion, 50c. per year. It is an interesting journal, and contains much 
that would be found valuable to Minnesota planters. 
SEC’Y PHILIPS, OF WISCONSIN.—We are glad to hear of his re-elec- 
tion to the office of secretary in the Wisconsin Horticultural Society. 
His intelligent oversight of the important experimental work that 
society is carrying on would be greatly missed if he were to retire, 
and we hope to see him in the harness for many years yet. Mr. 
Philips’ sons, we understand, are to succeed him as the active man- 
agers of the hill farm and orchard and leave him more at liberty to 
pursue his inclinations in this interesting work. The Wisconsin 
society is fortunate in having so practical an officer. 
Do YOU WANT THE GROUP PHOTOGRAPH?—Many inquiries have 
come in as to this photograph, the one appearing in a reduced form 
as trontispiece in the January, 1898, number. It can be had of W.R. 
Miller, photographer, No. 427, Nicollet avenue, Minneapolis, mounted 
ready for framing, and delivered at the express office, for $1.25. Send 
directly to him. The size of the picture is 18 x 22 inches. 
DEATH OF Dr. R. C. RICE, [A.—The sudden death of this gentle- 
man, the president of the N. W. Iowa Horticultural Society, is 
announced in the opening issue of “ The Fruitman,” referred to else- 
where in this issue. He is spoken of in that journal as an ardent 
devotee of our art, and one whose “discreet counsel will be sorely 
missed.” 
A NEw IOWA FRUIT PAPER.—Northwestern Iowa has just brought 
orth a new journal of the horticultural variety, under the title of 
“The Fruitman,” edited and published by M. KE. Hinkley, of Marcus, 
Ia. Mr. Hinckley is a nurseryman, evidently with a literary ambi- 
tion, which this bi-monthly is intended to satify. Price 25 cents per 
annum. At present he is vice-president of the N. W. Iowa Horti- 
cultural Society. Thesheet contains much matter of local interest, 
and we hope may develop, as it has a right to, being, as we under- 
stand, the only strictly horticultural periodical in that state. 
ALMOST AN OBITUARY NUMBER.—The unusual number of deaths 
.that have lately taken place in the ranks of our society casts a 
shadow across our pathway, and reminds us that the point is 
rapidly approaching at which the work of each one of our number 
must be laid aside, and of our career here it will be said, “it is fin- 
ished.” In the light of this solemn and certain fact, how petty and 
trifling seem the efforts of any to advance a selfish interest to the 
detriment of the very important public charge committed to our 
keeping. Let each of us examine candidly his own heart and life 
and see if his purposes are pure, and looking to the good of others 
than himself. To have it honestly said over our last resting place, 
“well done,” is an ambition we may most worthly strive for. 
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