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NortliTvesteru Horticultural Association. 



Ed. Pomologist and Gardener. — At a meeting of horticulturists at Madison, Wiscon- 

 si/^ on the ninth instant, after a full discussion as to the need of such an organization, it 

 was resolved, on motion of D. B. Wier, to form a permanent organization, to be known as 

 mbove. Its object being to encourage fruit growing and forest tree culture in the great 

 Korthwcst, esijccially in the new Northwest, now being opened up l)y the North Pacific 

 Railroad. A constitution and by-laws were adopted. The following gentlemen were 

 elected as officers of the permanent organization : 



President — Rev. G. W. Nunier, of Nunier, Tazewell county, Illinois. 



Vice Presidents — O. S. AVilley, Madison, Wisconsin; L. R. Scofield, Freeport, Illinois; J. 

 S. Harris, La Crescent, Minnesota ; James Mathews, Knoxville, Iowa. 



Recording Secretary— F. S. Lawrence, Janesville, Wisconsin. 



Corresjwnding Secretary — Mark Miller, Des Moines, Iowa. 



Executive Committee — A. G. Tuttle, Baraboo, Wisconsin; D. B. Wier, Lacon, Illinois; 

 Col. J. H. Stevens, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 



Treasurer — L. Woodard, Marengo, Illinois. 



The society is to hold regular biennial meetings. Membership fee, two dollars bien- 

 nially. The next meeting will be at the call of the Executive Committee, and it is hoped 

 all interested in Horticulture will help to make it a success by being present with their 

 fruits. The society hopes to be able to hold a session at some central place the coming 

 autumn, where all interested in Horticulture in the Northwest may meet together in 

 council, compare notes and bring together all the fruits of value grown in the region, to 

 unravel our nomenclature, and determine as far as may be, what is best to plant for fruit, 

 and for the timber for future generations. The officers elect are men who are willing to 

 ■work and have the means to make the association a success. An address is in preparation 

 giving the objects of the society, which can be had by addressing either of the secretaries, 

 President or other officers. — D. B. Wier, Lacon, Illinois. 



(From the Wisconsin Daily State Journal.) 



H. H. McAfee was designated to prepare an address to the people of the Northwest, 

 setting forth the objects of the Society, and asking their co-operation to make it a means 

 for the acquisition and dissemination of horticultural knowledge. 



The energy and the enthusiasm displayed at this meeting augur success to the under- 

 taking. The association starts out with a respectable working membership of promi- 

 nent horticulturists, and as an aid to the planter in the new regions being occupied it can- 

 not help but be useful if its affiiirs are well administered, and of that the character of the 

 men put at the helm assures us. The association purposes working by biennial joint exhi- 

 bitions held upon years alternate with the exhibitions of the American Pomological Soci- 

 ety, and also by holding meetings for addresses and discussions, and in its work a prominent 

 feature will be the interest of forestry, the encouragement of timber culture both upon the 

 pine forests now so rapidly being used up and upon the prairie regions, where trees are great- 

 ly needed as an economical resource and as an ameliorating agency for the climate. Your 

 reporter is instructed to state that all persons who desire to aid the workings of this 

 association can become members by remitting .|3 to L. Woodard, Marengo, 111., which 

 makes them members for two years, and entitles them to future publications of the 

 society. 



The 'Walbrldge and Cogsn^ell Apples. 



Ed. Pomologist and Gardener. — We mail you to-day samples of the Walbridge apple 

 and trust they will reach you safely. They were borne on one of the original trees planted 

 by the introducer of that variety, Mr. Daniel Pound, of Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin — the 

 trees now owned by Mr. Tabor. The first trees set there were sold by Mr. Pound about 

 nineteen years since, and from them have been propagated all the true Walbridge there is 

 known. 



We have good evidence that the Walbridge and Cogswell are Twt identical, as some have 



