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Specimkns OK Fkuits Wanted.— "I have been ou the committee 

 on nomenclature for a number of years, and I have here a book con- 

 taining (leacriptions of some two hundred varieties of fruit that 

 have been ^rown in Minnesota. I want to get hold of everjMhing- 

 new that is produced in the state, and 1 take an outline of it and 

 make a description, and everythin<^ that I have ever reported in these 

 reports I have in this book. When I g-et the book completed I ex- 

 pect to have it printed and present it to the library of the horticul- 

 tural society. I want the officers of the society to remember that 

 the book is the property of the society, in my custody, except when I 

 loan it to Prof. Green for the purpose of copying^ any description, 

 and if anything should happen to me I want the ofiLicers of the 

 society to secure that book and keep it. Now I have a request to 

 make: If you have any new fruit, any seedling fruit, I wish you 

 would send me one or two specimens. One may be a little cankered 

 and not good for anything, so it will be better to send two. The 

 specimens of fruit should not be bruised, and the stems must be 

 left on. It should be in as perfect a condition as possible."— ^^/i.v- 

 tracts from reporter's notes of late annual meeting. 



J. S. Harris, La Crescent. 



A DESERVED HONOR 



MIXXE.SOTA HORTICULTURISTS ELECT MR. AMASA STEWART, A LIKE 



MEMBER. 



(Extnift from a Te.xas paper.) 



At the recent annual meeting of the Minnesota State Horticultural 

 Society, Amasa Stewart of Lamarque, Tex., was unanimously elected 

 a life member of that organisation. Mr. Stewart was one of the orig- 

 inal members of that society. He originated the "Stewart currant," 

 now so famous in the Northwestern states; also the Stewart Sweet 

 apple. He is held in grateful remembrance by the fiorticulturists 

 of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota. He was the state treasurer of 

 the Minnesota society for many years. 



Mr. Stewart is well known throughout this region of the coast 

 country as one of the best authorities upon what can be successfully 

 and profitably grown from coast soils. His extensive farm at La- 

 marcjue has been made more or less of an experiment station by Mr. 

 Stewart, and the results achieved have been of considerable value 

 to the farmers for many miles around Lamarque The recognition 

 by the Minnesota Horticultural Society is a graceful and deserved 

 compliment. — re.ras Coast Neivs. 



The gooseberry is budded and grafted on the flowering currant, 

 which is a higher growing l)ush than the gooseberry. It is claimed 

 by some that the fruit is superior in (bivor, besides, it is quite or»i:i- 

 mental. 



