368 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



For full information address E. R. Lake, Secy., 2033 Park Road, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. If any of our members are contemplating attending this meeting, 

 we should be glad to hear from them in good season to secure for them an 

 official standing with the Pomological Society. 



Score Card to Be Used in Judging Vegetable Gardens. 



1. Arrangement, systems of companion and succession cropping. 15 



2. Straight, even, well-filled rows, proper spacing of plants 10 



3. Cultivation and care of plants 15 



4. Freedom from weeds, insects and diseases 15 



5. Varieties; importance of and proportion of most valuable crops 15 



6. Yield (approximate or actual) 30 



100 

 Prepared by R. S. Mackintosh for the Minn. Extension Division in judg- 

 ing garden contests. 



National Vegetable Show. — The Vegetable Growers' Association of 

 America is to hold this year at Springfield, Mass., a first national vegetable 

 show, and a premium list for this show has been prepared and can be 

 secured by addressing Eastern States Exposition, Springfield, Mass. As the 

 regulations require that all entries must be made by September 1, this notice 

 will reach you too late to take any part in this show this year. We under- 

 stand, however, that this is to be an annual affair, and another year Minne- 

 sota, either through individuals or through some of its strong vegetable asso- 

 ciations, should certainly make a show of Minnesota vegetables — none better 

 in the world — at the National Vegetable Show. Secure premium lists and 

 become acquainted with the situation. 



Since writing the above, it has come to our knowledge that the new 

 State Vegetable Growers' Association, organized here last spring, has 

 already made arrangements to make an exhibit at this show. We expect to 

 hear good things of what they accomplish there. 



Premium List for Annual Meeting. — In this number is to be found 

 a list of premiums to be offered by this society at the next annual meeting, 

 to be held, probably in Minneapolis, the first week in December. There 

 will be noted some radical changes in this list from that of previous years, 

 namely, the increase in the apple department, and the addition of a special 

 forty-dollar premium for collections of canned fruits and vegetables. This 

 collection may consist of either fruits alone or vegetables alone or both, and 

 this year especially when there is such a effort being made to secure an 

 unusual amount of canned and dried fruits, this ought to bring out a con- 

 siderable display. There has been a radical increase in the premium offered 

 on top-worked apples, emphasizing the special value of this class of apple 

 trees, this following the rather severe winter of 1916 and 1917. A consider- 

 able increase will also be noticed in pecks, boxes and barrels. These pre- 

 miums, with the interest which our membership has in this annual display, 

 ought to insure a large exhibition. 



Store Fruit for the Winter Meeting. — Arrangements have been made 

 with Booth Packing Co., as for a number of years now, to receive and care 

 for fruit to be exhibited later at the annual meeting of the society. Tags 

 for this purpose have been prepared and can be had at this office upon 

 application for any quantity. Specimens gathered for this purpose should be 

 free from blemish, not green or over-ripe, but well ripened up to the point 

 where they are however still firm. Do not send to cold storage fruit that is al- 

 ready mellow; it will disappoint you in its keeping qualities. It will probably 

 be more convenient for you to send to cold storage all the fruit you plan to 

 exhibit at the winter meeting, except seedling apples, which must be kept out 

 .of cold storage. All fruit so stored will be held at the expense of the society, 

 and delivered without further charge to the exhibitor at the place of meeting 

 the day preceding the opening of the meeting. Of course you will want to 

 have some part in this splendid exhibition which the society will put up this 

 year. 



