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received the year before amongst those who would appreciate them— it not 

 being necessary to keep them as the bound volume contains them all. Under 

 the circumstances then we do not send out the annual volume, except when 

 it is directly asked for. To members in Minneapolis it is never mailed 

 except by personal request, the members calling at the office for them as 

 convenient. 



Will You Renew Your Membership? — Of course we are very desirous 

 that all members of the society for 1916 should renew membership for the 

 year 1917, and experience proves that the larger proportion will. If, how- 

 ever, you have definitely decided that you will not renew, won't you please 

 send a card to this office immediately giving us this information so that we 

 may stop sending you our monthly, it being our practice to continue the 

 names of the members of the previous year on the mailing list for the 

 current year until we hear from them to the contrary. Please give this 

 matter prompt atention, either remitting the annual fee or notifying us of 

 your purpose to discontinue membership. 



Our Horticultural Building. — We regret not having any information 

 to give as to progress of the legislation which has been started in our State 

 Legislature for the securing of this building. The matter is in the hands of 

 the committees of the two Houses, and since the issue of the February 

 Horticulturist nothing whatever has been done in either committee as far as 

 we are informed. The Executive Board of the society and the Building 

 Committee stand ready to appear before the Legislative Committees in 

 furtherance of this object whenever an opportunity is given to us, which 

 we hope will not be much longer postponed. This does not mean that we 

 consider the situation by any means hopeless. We are entirely confident 

 that the building will be eventually secured, if not at this session of the 

 Legislature, certainly at some other not so very far away, and the chances 

 of its being at the present session we consider most excellent. 



Apple Seed and Rosa Rugosa Seed. — The society has on hand a con- 

 siderable quantity of apple seed secured from the choicest fruit displayed 

 at the late annual meeting. All of the hardy varieties are included in the 

 mixture. Besides this mixture we have a considerable quantity of seed 

 from the Northwestern Greening apple, which can be furnished separately. 

 The Rosa Rugosa seed on hand was secured from selected bushes of the 

 Rosa Rugosa seedlings growing at the State Fruit-Breeding Farm. Any of 

 this seed will be furnished at ten cents per package and directions for care 

 and planting will be sent with each order filled. There is no more interest- 

 ing pursuit connected with horticulture than growing and bringing to 

 fruitage seedlings of this sort. One never knows whether it is to be the 

 finest fruit ever grown or something of an ordinary character — at least it 

 gives promise of being a hardy tree and especially so if it has never been 

 moved from the place where the seed was planted. Seedling apple trees 

 have a tap root which goes down to perennial moisture. Transplanting such 

 a seedling cuts off this root. Don't transplant your apple seedlings if it can 

 possibly be avoided. 



