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reaches a large size. Recent experiments in making paper from the 
fibers of this wood have been so successful that there is but little 
doubt of its future importance. This wood is soft and its fibers so 
silky as to insure the best results for paper making. 
WiLpD CHERRY (Prunus emarginata, variety mollis). In the 
Willamette valley this tree is often in small groves of slender, 
straight form, eight to ten inches through; more seldom one finds a 
single tree twelve to eighteen inches through. Its wood is a hand- 
some smooth material for furniture. In the coast mountains it is 
often seen in groves of considerable extent of long, straight and 
slender poles. Thomas Conden. 
PACIFIC COAST WOMAN'S PRESS ASSOCIATION. 
This Association formally announced its organization to the 
public by holding its first semi-annual meeting in San Francisco, on 
the 16th, 17th and 18th of March. It was organized in September 
last, and has a membership of about two hundred. 
The officers were wisely chosen, and are: President, Mrs. Nellie 
B. Eyster; first vice-president, Mrs. Jeanne C. Carr; second vice- 
president, Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin; third vice-president, Mrs. 
Sarah B. Cooper; corresponding secretary, Mrs. E. T. Y. Parkhurst; 
recording secretary, Mrs. Sam Davis; assistant recording secretary, 
Mrs. Emily Brown Powell; treasurer, Mrs. Mary O. Stanton; audi- 
tor, Mrs. Isabel Raymond; librarian, Mrs. 8. E. Reamer. 
Only those having cards of admission were allowed to enter the 
hall where the exercises were held, but of these there were enough 
to fill the room at each session of the Association. The program 
was sufficiently varied to give interest to each session, while some of 
the papers were able and of unusual merit. 
Among the notable women participating in its exercises—one of 
whom has a world-wide fame, and others of more than local honor— 
were, Mrs. Rose Hartwick Thorpe, Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Stetson—a 
most worthy descendant of Lyman Beecher and niece of Edward 
Everett Hale, Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, Mrs. Wiggin, Mrs. Eyster, the 
president, Mrs. Parkhurst, the founder of the Association, and others. 
Madame Modjeska is an honorary member of the Association. 
San Diego was represented by three delegates, Mrs. Rose Har- 
wick Thorpe, Mrs. Evelyn M. Ludlum, Mrs. John R. Berry. Mrs. 
Thorpe’s thoughtful poem, “ Progress,” deserves a careful reading be- 
fore its beautiful depths are sounded and the poem fully appreciated. 
Mrs. Berry read a short paper upon the topic assigned her, 
‘Woman’s Work in San Diego.” 
There were banquets, excursions, and receptions given to the As- 
sociation by the cordial citizens of the city. 
The next, which will be the annual meeting of the Association, 
will be held during the third week in September, at Hotel Del Coro- 
