124 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



"Please tell us how to keep apple seed from fall to spring so it 

 w^ill grow?" 



Mr. Lyman: Plant them in the fall. 



Mr. Elliot: If any one does not wish to plant them in the fall, they 

 can be put in moist soil and packed away in the cellar and then 

 planted in the spring-. 



Prof. Hansen (S. D.): I would sooner pack them in moist soil in 

 the fall and Dury them outside just below the surface where they 

 can freeze hard all winter long. If the snow piles up too much 

 over them, shovel it away. If 3^ou get the seed in the spring, it is 

 pretty well dried, and you have to soak it over night in water before 

 you plant it. 



"How mvich value is there in subsoiling?" 



Pres. Underwood: We will ask Prof. Snyder to answer that ques- 

 tion. 



Prof. Snyder: I think that is a question on which we have hardly 

 enough data to venture an opinion. If we have a stiff clay soil, we 

 would derive benefit from subsoiling if we have enough rain. If 

 we have a gravelly soil, I hardly think we gain anything by sub- 

 soiling, unless it be done for a special purpose. 



Mr. Collman, (Iowa): I do not know that I know any more about 

 this matter than any of you living here, but with vis in southwest- 

 ern Iowa we think there is nothing: like subsoilinsf. 



NOTICE-ARBOR DAY PLANTING. 



PRIZES FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS. 



The membership fee of the Minnesota State Forestry Association is 

 one dollar; the annual membership fee of the Minnesota State 

 Horticultural Society (including the cloth bound report of 1895—500 

 pages— and their monthly magazine, The Minnesota Horticultur- 

 ist) is one dollar; the nursery price of the number of plants in each 

 lot designated is one dollar; but at the expense of the association, to 

 encourage the planting of reliable trees, I make the following offer: 



For $1.60 I will send you an annual membership in the State Hor- 

 ticultural Society, including the report and magazine as described 

 above, for the year 1896, and, post-paid, 25 evergreens, i to 8 inches, 

 nursery grown, consisting of Scotch pines, white pines, arbor vities, 

 white spruces; or 25 barberries; or 25 rooted hazlenuts; or 100 one- 

 year green ash; or 1(X) box elders; or 100 soft maples, the plants to be 

 mixed or separate as you may order. Also, for six cents to cover the 

 postage, a copy of the 11th edition of the Tree Planter's Manual, con- 

 taining a world of information on tree culture, and another able 

 pamphlet just published, on "Water Disappearance in Minnesota," 

 and one package of green ash seeds gathered last fall, containing 

 over 500 seeds. The forestry literature and seeds will be mailed on 

 reception of the order with the money, and the plants mailed in 

 proper season. This makes you a life member of this association, 

 entitled to all the issues of our future forestry literature and no after 

 dues required. 



Now for a grand Arbor Day rally of a full week of planting next 

 April! Let us see what town or county will do the best! It is 

 understood that you are to report success to me for record on the 

 Roll of Honor. Send in your orders fast as possible. 



Kditors of other papers are requested to co-operate. 



Address: 



J. O. BARRETT, 

 Sec'y Minnesota State Forestry Association, Brown's Valley. Minn. 



