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As a Junebearing berry we are greatly taken up with Minn. 

 No. 3. It is such a thrifty plant and a good bearer. We believe 

 in time it will take the place of Sen. Dunlap. 



Plums did not bear any fruit except a few thickets of wild 

 plums. 



Grapes bore a light crop, and the hot season matured them. 

 Worden, Moore's Early are our best kinds — Concord so many 

 years does not ripen. 



The fall blooming ornamentals did not do very well on ac- 

 count of the dry weather. Phlox was a short season, dahlias did 

 not do much; gladioli were good this year; we enjoyed Mrs. F. 

 King and Baron Hulot, also America. 



In Memoriam - J. M. Doudna. 



On February 16th, 1917, J. M. Doudna, the veteran bee- 

 keeper, passed away. 



This name is one well known to the bee-keepers of the North- 

 west, as he was one of the pioneers of that industry, having been 

 engaged in the business for more than forty years, and keeping 

 always in close touch with the most advanced methods. 



Years ago his display of wax and honey was one of the most 

 interesting of the exhibits at the Minnesota state fair. 



He was a member of the Bee-Keepers Society and of the 

 Horticultural Society since 1892, in all twenty-five years. 



Mr. Doudna was born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1837. The first 

 school he attended was held in his father's kitchen, and he learned 

 to write on shingles with pieces of charcoal. 



Very interesting indeed were the stories he used to tell of 

 those days, of his hunting and trapping when a mere child, of the 

 little log school house, of the apple trees on his father's place 

 which were planted by "Apple Seed Johnnie," of the great beaver 

 dams, and the quantities of wild turkeys and pigeons. 



He was married at twenty-two, but his wife died during the 

 year and he never remarried. 



He enlisted at the beginning of the Civil War, and served 

 four years as postal clerk in the Mississippi Marine Brigade. 



At the close of the war he went to Alexandria, Minn., and 

 soon after went into the bee industry. He remained there until 

 thirteen years ago, when he came to Minneapolis, and settled 

 south of Lake Harriet, where he kept a small apiary until com- 

 pelled by ill health to give up his beloved bees. 



