214 ANNUAL EEPORT 



copy could be placed in the hands of every farmer in the State. — The 

 Farmer, St. Paul. 



The fifteenth annual report of the Minnesota Horticultural Society 

 makes a comprehensive volume of 500 pages, containing the essays, dis- 

 cussions, fruit reports and proceedings of the Society for the past year 

 to which is added a report of the Amber Cane Association and reports 

 from delegates to other societies. The book is beautifully edited by 

 the secretary, S. D. Hillman of Minneapolis, upon whom it reflects 

 great credit. The Society is supported by an annual appropriation of 

 $1,000 from the State, which also prints its reports. Its report is a 

 model. It describes a horticulture entirely new to the great fruit 

 growing sections of the country, for the cold north requires different 

 varieties and treatment from those common to other sections. Every 

 horticulturist north of 42° of latitude and west of the 8th meridian 

 should procure and consult the practical experiences of the successful 

 horticulturists of the Northwest, so well presented in this carefully 

 edited volume. — Farm and Home. 



We are in receipt of a copy of the annual report of the Minnesota 

 Horticultural Society for 1887. It embraces the transactions of the 

 Society from March 31, 1886, to March 31, 1887, also proceedings of 

 the annunl meeting of the Minnesota Amber Cane Association, es- 

 says, reports, etc. It is a good work for reference, and a copy should 

 be in the hands of every amateur horticulturist in the State. Dodge 

 County Republican. 



The annual report of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society for 

 1886-7 is a volume of 500 pages. It contains the proceedings of the 

 Society for the year, and contains many reports and papers of value 

 and interest on matters of horticulture in its various branches. It is 

 a mafter of regret that, so far as we have examined, there is neither a 

 name nor a line in the whole report that would lead us to believe 

 there was such a county as Fillmore in the State of Minnesota. Mr. J. 

 S. Harris of LaCrescent, Houston county, is a prominent member of 

 the society and participant in its proceedings Besides a report of the 

 proceedings of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, where he 

 was a delegate, and a report on seedling fruits, Mr. Harris presented 

 four papers: "Small Fruits for Market and Home Use," " Propagat- 

 ing by Grafting, Buding and Layering, "(illustrated), " The Codling 

 Moth," "Fruit Growing in the Northwest," also two reports on fruit 

 in Houston county. These papers fill sixty pages of the annual report. 

 — Lanesboro Journal, June 3, 1887. 



