442 OBITUARY. 



JAMES M. SMITH. 

 James M. Smith of Green Bay, Wis., died early in the 

 suinmer of 1894. He was also an ardent promoter of 

 Northwestern horticulture and made a grand success of 

 market, vegetable and small fruit growing, and was for 

 many years president of the Wisconsin Horticultural 

 Society. 



GEORGE P. PEFFER. 



Georg-e P. Peffer died at Pewaukee, Wis., in the autumn 

 of 1894. His footprints are seen in hundreds of homes 

 in eastern Wisconsin, that are surrounded with stately 

 deciduous and everg-reen trees and beautiful shrubberj'; 

 and his new creations in fruit, produced by crossing- and 

 hybridizing-, have placed the "gates ajar" for g-reat pos- 

 sibilities in the near future of apple culture. 



The hoary locks of the three have been consigned to the 

 tomb. The world is better for their having lived in it, and 

 the friends of horticulture in Wisconsin and Minnesota will 

 clasp hands in brotherly kindness over their last resting 

 places. J. S. Harris. 



IMPORTANT!! 



Reduced Rates to Annual Meeting.— The press announces the 

 dissolution of the Western Passeng-er Association, but it is notlikelj^ 

 this will interfere with reduced rates on the railroads to our annual 

 meeting. It will, however, be necessary in order to secure this re- 

 duction that one hundred certificates be presented at the sametime 

 to the railroad agent at the place of meeting. Do NOT FAIL then, by 

 all means, to secure a certificate from the railroad agent at the place 

 of starting out and at all transfer points stating that you have 

 purchased a full fare ticket to the meeting of this society. If all in 

 attendence do this, there will be no trouble about geting back at 

 one-third rate. 



It is not yet decided defiuitel}^ where the meeting will be held, but 

 will be announced in the January number in connection with the 

 program. 



Secretary. 



