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tion apart from and in addition to the annual report of the society. 

 It is an especially practical journal as well aS handsomely gotten 

 up, and would be found a valuable supplement to our own monthly. 



MiNXESOTA State Fair, 1896.— The premium list of the approach- 

 ing state fair is now out, and copies will be sent to all upon appli- 

 cation to Secretary E. W. Randall, Hamline, Minn. 



On account of its being held at the time of the National Encamp- 

 ment of the Grand Army of the Republic, which meets in St. Paul 

 that week, and the consequent very low railroad fares, an extraord- 

 inary attendance is anticipated, and the managment are putting 

 forth unusual efforts to improve, if possible, on the excellent fair of 

 a year ago. The Horticultural Society should and, we are sure, will 

 do all that can be done to contribute its share to this end. 



Montana's Horticultural Societies.— Besides the State Horti- 

 ticultural Societ}^ Montana also boasts a Fruit Growers' Association? 

 which was enthusiastically launched at Missoula, Februarj'- 20th 

 last. The state society held its meeting at Stevensville, February 13 

 and 14, the week before. What the peculiar circumstances are that 

 make it advantageous for so young a state to support two horticul- 

 tural societies are not known. The reports of the two meetings are 

 published in full in Vol. I, No. 12, of the "Montana Fruit Grower," 

 and are records of two very interesting meetings. They seem to be 

 the official reports. The fruit industry is evidently arousing much 

 enthusiasm in that state. 



Revised Kitchen Garden Planting Table — R. S. Mackintosh 

 has taken the Planting Table published in the April No. of the 

 "Horticulturist," as copied from the "American Gardening," and 

 by curtailing it somewhat and making a few changes made it 

 speciaiij^ applicable to this state. As originally published it was 

 prepared for general use in the Northern States. As revised it 

 appears in the May Ist issue of "The Northwestern Agriculturist,"^ 

 Minneapolis. A card board copy ready for framing can be had of 

 the publisher for 5 cts., and it is worth much more. Mr. Mackintosh 

 is well fitted by experience as a practical vegetable gardener in our 

 state to revise this table, and we are very glad he has taken the 

 trouble to do so. 



Organization of the Montana State Horticultural Society. 

 — This society is incorporated as a regular stock company, with a 

 capital stock of 2,500 shares of $10 each, and the stockholders have 

 the entire control and management of all the afifairs of the society. 

 If agreeable, by vote of the society others than stockholders may 

 become annual members of the society by paying an annual fee of 

 $1 or life inembers b}' paying $10, but such members have no voice 

 whatever in the management of the affairs of the society, except in 

 fixing the time and place of the annual meetings. Such members, 

 however, may attend the meetings, take part in the discussions, &c. 

 This is certainly a novel plan, but as it has been in operation only 

 since May, 1895, its practical working is yet to be tested. 



