Famous Fruitage. — "My Transcendent apple tree, 44 feet across the 

 top, 6% feet around the body, 47 years old, will have 20 bushels of apples 

 or more and net me more than $40.00 in cash. Some of my Wealthy trees, 

 47 years old, will have fifteen bushels or more and net me nearly $25.00 

 each. These Wealthy trees are grown from scions of the original Wealthy 

 tree and among the first ever grafted." — Rolla Stubbs, Bederwood, Lake 

 Minnetonka. 



The 1917 Apple Crop. — The monthly crop report of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture gives the apple crop in the United States for this 

 year at 51.5 per cent of a normal crop which is two per cent less than the 

 average of the ten preceding years. The estimated crop f nesota, 



as it appears in this report, is 1,386,000 bushels for this year. We have 

 no method, not even an approximate one, of verifying these figures, which I 

 suppose is the average of reports from a number of individual observers 

 in this state. It looks large to us. 



Replanting the Orchards of France. — The Horticultural Society 

 of New York is calling attention in a circular just at hand to the great 

 destruction of fruit trees in France, caused by the devastations of the war. 

 In the devastated region, now being re-occupied, it is found necessary to 

 entirely replant the orchards. The society referred to has undertaken the 

 establishment of a fund to be devoted to that purpose, and is requesting 

 other American horticultural societies to co-operate in this commendable 

 purpose. Members of this society who desire to contribute to this fund can 

 do so through this office or by communicating directly with the Secretary 

 of the New York Society, addressing him at New York Botanical Gardens, 

 Bronx Park, New York City. The name is George V. Nash. 



Are You Storing Fruit for the Winter Meeting? — Perhaps your 

 attention was not called to the premium list for the coming annual meeting, 

 which was published in the September number of our monthly. Looking 

 this over you will note a considerable increase in premiums offered for a 

 number of articles, especially pecks, boxes and barrels of apples. A new 

 prize is offered for collections of cans of fruits and vegetables, intending to 

 stimulate work in this line, which is of such special importance this year. 

 We anticipate a large display, but to secure it, of course, will need your 

 co-operation as well as that of your friend and neighbor. It will be noted 

 that the fifth one-hundred dollar prize for a seedling grown under a previous 

 offer is to be awarded at this meeting. The usual prizes for seedling apples 

 are being offered, although there is a slight change in the way of an increase 

 for late keeping varieties and a corresponding decrease for early winter 

 varieties. What are you doing to help on this exhibition, in which the 

 society takes so large an interest? 



Program of the Annual Meeting. — Some work has been done already, 

 and progress made, in preparing the program for the coming meeting. We 

 are already assured of the attendance of four leading professors of horti- 

 culture in the West besides those of our own state, namely: Prof. J. C. 

 Whitten, of Missouri; Prof. N. E. Hansen, of South Dakota; Prof. C. B. 

 Waldron, of North Dakota; and Prof. R. W. Brodrick, of Manitoba. Most 

 of these have been with us with much regularity for some years. Prof. 

 Whitten will attend our meeting for the first time, and on this account 

 special work has been prepared for him on the program. Conservation, top- 

 working, spraying, vegetable gardening, flower culture — the latter to be 

 represented by three societies — will receive special attention at this meeting. 

 In fact almost every phase of every branch of horticulture will find some 

 place on this comprehensive program. Of course you are planning to be in 

 attendance. Members will be accommodated at special prices at the West 

 Hotel, and every facility offered for making the gathering a convenient, 

 comfortable and a most enjoyable occasion. Plan your winter vacation in 

 Minneapolis the first week in " cember. 



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