Junior Horticultural Club. — Your attention is called especially to 

 page 142 of this issue. It will be found very interesting reading — a new 

 field of work opened up in connection with the Society. 



Report for 1902 Wanted. — There is a call from the library of the 

 Agricultural College at Amherst, Mass., for a copy of the 1902 report of 

 this society. This is one of the issues of which our supply is entirely ex- 

 hausted. Is there any member of the society who would like to furnish us 

 this volume? Address the secretary. 



See Inside Front Cover Page. — When you do this you will observe 

 that the table of contents is no longer there, but you will find it instead 

 on the inside back cover page. In place of this we have printed on the 

 inside front cover page the material that heretofore has appeared on a pink 

 slip in that vicinity. Dear fellow-member, please give this matter careful 

 attention and let us hear from you promptly. 



Don't Remit by Check. — Are you aware that nearly all checks that 

 are sent in here in payment of memberships ; except those on the Twin Cities 

 and Duluth, cost this society from three to ten cents each to collect? You 

 can safely send a dollar bill for this purpose or for three cents secure a 

 postal order, but if you send a check be sure to add to it an amount suffi- 

 cient to cover the cost of collecting. Your banker can tell you how much. 



Reports From No. 1017. — Good reports are coming in from those who 

 are testing the everbearing strawberry seedling, No. 1017, originated at the 

 State Fruit-Breeding Farm. 



"The 1017 bore an immense lot of fine berries last summer and fall, 

 and it seems impossible to improve on them." — J. W. Skinner, Beltrami Co. 



"Of the plants of No. 1017 I got in 1915, three lived through the win- 

 ter. It was very dry here in 1914 and 1915. It shows that 1017 is a hardy 

 plant."— W. H. Tomalin, Sask. 



Life Members. — There has been considerable number of members 

 added to our life membership roll the current year, in all 21, including 

 those taken at the last annual meeting. Undoubtedly there are others who 

 are considering the matter, and for their information it is stated here that 

 anyone who has paid $1.00 as an annual fee for the year 1917 who wishes 

 to change to a life membership may do so, and the $1.00 already paid will 

 be credited on the life membership fee, making a further payment of $4.00 

 sufficient for the first semi-annual payment, or $9.00 if paid in full. 



Not Enough Annual Reports. — The annual volume of the society, 

 entitled "Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota," is limited in its issue 

 to three thousand copies, considerably less than the number of our member- 

 ship, and besides we have to reserve at least three hundred copies for 

 exchanges, public libraries, life members, etc. Fortunately a considerable 

 percentage of the members are not particular about receiving this volume, 

 and it is required that members who do receive it distribute the magazines 



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