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usefulness as in the past, for onr Society and all its active 

 members. 



VOLUME FOURTEEN. 



The last volume of our transactions was issued in July, and 

 for the variety and extent of the information therein contained 

 was most creditable to the Society. Our thanks are due to offi- 

 cers, members and others, for the assistance kindly rendered in 

 the work of preparation and for contributions made. Much 

 credit, too, is due the publishers, the Messrs. J. W. Cunningham 

 & Co., for the satisfactory manner in which the work of printing 

 and binding was performed. The work of publication was de- 

 layed by other state reports, as ''copy" was delivered in the 

 month of February. This volume has a few less pages than the 

 preceding number, but in point of fact has considerable more 

 reading matter than any other of the series. In order to bring 

 the book within reasonable limits it was found necessary to print 

 the larger portion of the articles contributed in brevier. It 

 might be well to bear in mind that since our space is limited 

 there should be studied brevity in all discussions, as well as in 

 the papers read. 



There were in all 1,000 copies bound in cloth, at an expense 

 to the Society of one hundred dollars; the larger portion of which 

 number was required to furnish our own members and make ex- 

 changes with societies in neighboring states, as has been custom- 

 ary heretofore. 



Among the many notices received, we quote the following: 



Eeport of the Minnesota Horticultural Society for 

 1886. — Embracing the proceedings of the Society from March, 

 1885, until March, 1886. The volume is edited by Secretary S. 

 D. Hillman, of Minneapolis, and is published by the state. The 

 meetings of the Society were characterized by the high standard 

 of the papers furnished, and the discussions which followed are 

 very fully reported. The secretary has a special department of 

 his own, occupying fifty pages at the close of the volume. In 

 this, he has placed short accounts of the transactions of other 

 societies, notably of the American Pomological Society, together 

 with interesting correspondence which adds materially to the 

 value of the volume. — American Rorticulturist. 



The annual report of the Minnesota State Horticultural So- 

 ciety for the year 1886, embracing the transactions of the Society 

 from March, 31, 1885, to same date, 1886, together with the pro- 



