352 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Suitable premiums will be offered, so that no loss will be sustained 

 by the exhibitor. We hope next winter to make a very full and in- 

 teresting- exhibit. Indeed enough have already signified their 

 intention to assist to assure it; but it is hoped all the fruit growers 

 in our society may save something of their best and bear a hand 

 with us. Tags to be used in sending fruit here for storage can be 

 had by application to Secretary Latham, 



Fruit Exhibit at the Fair.— Enough is known of the probable 

 show of fruit at the coming state fair, which opens Aug. 31st, to 

 make it certain that it will be up to the average, but we naturally 

 want it to be the very best ever made in our state, and, no doubt, the 

 frAit is here to do it. The regular exhibitors, who from experience 

 appreciate the advantages of attendance at the fair, will undoubtedly 

 be on hand, but it is very desirable that others who have not here- 

 tofore attended should also come and reap these advantages, which 

 come largely from the opportunity of intercourse with the exper- 

 ienced pomologists who are there, supplemented by the object 

 lesson of such an exhibit. Come, if possible, and you will be greatly 

 the gainer. 



Missouri Botanical Garden.— Our librar}^ has been lately en- 

 riched by the addition of a full file of the annual reports of this gar- 

 den, in all seven volumes. They are valuable as works of art, but 

 chiefly, of course, from the character of their contents. This garden 

 was originally founded by Henry Shaw in 1857, and maintained by 

 him till his death in 1889, when it passed by devise under the manage- 

 ment of a board of trustees. It is amply endowed in land and 

 means to continue its work of usefulness. The first annual report 

 appeared in 1890. The founder is buried in the garden of his plant- 

 ing, and a splendid tomb stands above his remains. He has planned 

 well to perpetuate his name, and will be spoken of with feelings of 

 gratitude for generations after the multi-millionaires of the present 

 day who are devoting their possessions to personal gratification 

 are absolutely forgotten. What a monument! 



The Bordeaux Mixture for Potato Blight.— Experiments at 

 the Rhode Island Experiment Station in 1895 (see Bulletin 38) dem- 

 onstrate the possibility of the prevention of this dreaded disease 

 in the potato field. In a season when no other good potato field 

 could be found in that section, at the station, by a judicous use of 

 the mixture from July 6th, when the disease first appeared, seven 

 applications in all, till late in August, a yield was secured of about 

 360 bushels to the acre, and the engraving published shows the 

 tubers to have been large and well formed. No applications were 

 made till the blight appeared on the vines, and from that on they 

 were kept well covered with the mixture. Here is the formula 

 used: 



Equal parts of quick lime and sulphate of copper, with four to 

 eight gallons of water for each pound of the sulphate of copper. 

 Both the quick lime and the sulphate of copper are dissolved sep- 

 arately and passed through a fine strainer (forty meshes to the 

 inch), and not mixed till the milk of lime is cold. 



A home made sprayer suitable for this purpose is described on 

 page 238, June Horticulturist. 



