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reaches a, large size. Recent experiments in making paper from the 

 fibers of this wood have been so successful chat 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. 



Wild Cherry (Primus 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 Condon. 



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. S. 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- 



