80 MINNESOTA "STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



"No. 1, Minnesota Horticulturist, received. I at first thought I 

 would prefer mine in one bound volume. Perhaps, at the close of 

 the year you will have some bound for exchange ^nd to be fur- 

 nished members at cost; that would make it all ri^ht. I sometimes 

 try to look ahead; I can see that ''The Minnesota Horticulturist" is to 

 be a permanent thing. When, in describing your mill, I said 

 Latham was studying on attachments, that language was prophetic. 

 Here is the attachment! Better that it comes as an attachment, for 

 when 5^our mill goes to decay, it can be hitched onto another mill, 

 and thus be kept constantly at work grinding out and dispersing 

 the glories of creation. 



"I have one little improvement to suggest — have the leaves cut by 

 machinery. When we get hold of a good thing we want it available 

 at once."— E. H. S. Dartt. 



NOTICES. 



Persons having proinising seedling apples, especially those re- 

 ceived from Mr. P. M. Gideon, are invited to send scions to Owaton- 

 na Tree Station for trial. 



Greenwood crab scions will be mailed free to northern sections of 

 the state. E. H. S. Dartt, Supt. 



John S. Harris of La Crescent, is the standing committee of the 

 Minnesota State Horticultural Society on seedling and new fruits, 

 and will continue the work begun several years since of looking up 

 and locating the seedling apples and other fruits and the most valu- 

 able wild native fruits of the Northwest. 



The coming apple for this climate will doubtless be a seedling 

 produced on our own soil, and as it requires many years to ascer- 

 tain the real merits of a variety, all persons having or knowing of 

 any hardy and promising new seedling apples, or good native or 

 seedling plums, will greatly aid him in his work by corresponding 

 with him, and sending him samples for examination and de- 

 scription. He is also conducting a trial and experiment station, 

 and will be glad to receive scions or plants of anything new and 

 promising, and will give them a fair trial and report results. 



ITASCA STATE PARK. 



(SKE FRONTISPIECK.) 



The Itasca State Park comprises thirty-five square miles around 

 Itasca Lake and other smaller lakes that are the source of the Mis- 

 sissippi river. This territory has been dedicated forever to the pub- 

 lic for this purpose by legal enactment. At present its distance from 

 the center of population in the state precludes any improvements 

 other than to preserve its natural features, with which the engrav- 

 ing shown would indicate it is richlj' endowed. This view shows 

 the east arm of Itasca Lake with Turnbull Point in the distance. 



