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sent the following, beginning with those that may be had free by 
simply applying for them: 
“Observations on Mushrooms,” Circular 13, revised edition, United 
States Department of Agriculture. 
“How to Grow Mushrooms,’ Farmer’s Bulletin, No. 53, United 
States Department of Agricultue. ‘ 
Year Book, 1897, Departmeut of Agriculture, contains a most excel- 
lent article on mushrooms by Prof. Farlow, of Harvard college; 
price 50cents. Cornell University (Ithaca, N. Y.) has begun to pub- 
ish aseries of bulletins on the mushroom, The first, No. 138, is out 
and can be had by applying for it. 
Chas. H. Peck, New York state botanist, under the auspices of the 
board of regents of the university has published considerable on 
the mushroom. His forty-eighth annual report, of 1895,is the best 
for the money that I know of. It contains forty-nine colored plates 
with elaborate descriptions. It can be had for the small sum of $1 
by applying to the State Librarian, Albany, N. Y, 
In Minneapolis and Saint Paul public libraries and in the histor- 
ical library at the capitol, you will find excellent popular and scien- 
tific books on fungi. I might uname other works, but if you desire 
more literature on the mushroom, send tothe United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture for Library Bulletin No. 20, which gives a list 
of hundreds of publications on fungi. 
If you wish to study them scientifically, you will wish to get Cook's 
Introduction to the Study or Massee’s works. 
I sincerely trust that each one of you will send for one or more 
books and begin the study of this most excellent article of food, 
growing at your doors. Ican promise you that besides adding a 
delicious article to your bill of fare you will have a delightful and 
exhilerating pastime. 
WOMEN’S AUXILIARY TO THE MINN. STATE HORT. 
SOCIETY. 
(Organized at the summer meeting of the Horticultural Society, June 25, 1898) 
LUCIA E. DANFORTH, SECY., RED WING. 
A meeting of the women present was called in Prof. Green’s lec- 
ture room at 11 o’clock. Pres. J. M. Underwood, of the Horticultural 
Society, called the meeting to order and asked Mrs. J. M. Underwood 
to state the object of the meeting. It was,in brief, to organize the 
women of horticultural families to work through the State Horticul- 
tural Society and also through the State Federation of Women’s 
Clubs, in village and country improvement, beautifying country 
school yards, and developing in all possible ways the artistic side 
of rural life. Miss Emma V. White was elected temporary chair- 
man and Miss Lucia E. Danforth temporary secretary. Officers were 
elected as follows: 
President—Miss Emma V. White, 824 Nicollet ave., Minneapolis. 
Vice President—Mrs. Anna B. Underwood, Lake City. 
Secretary—Miss Lucia E. Danforth, Red Wing. 
Treasurer—Mrs. L. R. Moyer, Montevideo. 
