yellow and red striped; stem, short; cavity, broad, deep, funnel shaped, slightly russetted at bottom; calyx, open; basin, large, deep and nearly smooth; core, small and closed; flesh, yellowish white, tender and juicy; flavor, pleasant acid, good; season, early winter.

Albee Sweet. Size, 5; weight, 5 ounces; form, round conical; color, light green, changing to yellowish, with a brown or dull red cheek and obscurely specked with small whitish dots; stem, short medium; cavity, narrow, medium, slightly russetted at bottom; calyx, closed; basin, small, shallow and wrinkled; flesh, fine, firm, yellowish white; flavor, clear sweet. The tree is about the only survivor of a large lot of seedlings planted from thirty-five to forty years ago, and is not known to have been injured by hard winters. Origin, Portland, Houston county.

Adaline, by Jacob Klein, Hokah. Size, 5; weight, 5 ounces; form, smooth, roundish; color, greenish yellow ground nearly covered with deep red and overspread with many small russet dots; stalk, short, medium, in a medium broad, rather deep, russetted cavity; calyx, closed in a deep, abrupt, bowl-shaped basin; core, small and closed; flesh, fine and white; flavor, mild subacid, good; season, late autumn and early winter; was awarded second premium at late state fair.

Sweet Allie, by Jacob Klein, Hokah, Minn. Size, 7; weight, 8 ounces; form, round ovate, inclining to conical; color, light yellow ground, nearly covered with red in marbling and stripes; stem, short,in a regular, medium deep cavity; calyx, closed; basin, medium regular, smooth; flesh, nearly fine, greenish yellow; flavor, sweet; tree, vigorous and good bearer on alternate years; origin, from seed from Canada; season, early September.

Hathaway Seedling, from R. Hathaway, Faribault. Size, 3; weight, 4 ounces; form, smooth, round; color, greenish yellow striped with red on the sun side and quite thickly sprinkled over with minute brown dots, obscure on colored portions; stalk, long and slender, set in a rather above medium broad and deep cavity; calyx, small and closed; basin, medium, ribbed; flesh, yellow, fine grained, firm; flavor, mild acid. The originator says of it: "Excellent for cooking, fair for eating and keeps well till April." Tree about twenty years old, has fruited twelve years. Tree believed to be perfectly hardy and is free from fire blight.

Akin's Russet, Seedling No. 71, by D. F. Akin, Farmington.

Size,

5; weight, 6 ounces; form, oblate; color, yellow, mostly covered with light russet; stem, short, in a regular medium cavity; calyx, closed, in a broad medium basin; flesh, yellow, fine, tender; flavor, subacid, good; season, November.

This report is already too long, therefore the most desirable of the remainder will be reported upon later and appear in the maga zine during the season. The work of this committee should be continued. It takes up considerable time and involves some expense, but it is deeply interesting and may prove of great importance to pomology.

Secretary's Corner.

WANTED, NOVEMBER 1898 "HORTICULTURISTS."-If you have one to spare, please mail it to the secretary. A few are needed very much; if more are sent they can be used to the best advantage.

COL. STEVENS IMPROVING.-We all rejoice in the improvement in health of our old and esteemed fellow-member. The crisis in his disease is past, and he is steadily gaining strength, and we may hope to see him out again as spring opens.

A FORESTRY MAP FOR MINNESOTA.-H. B. Ayres, of Carlton, Minn., has been authorized to prepare a map of the forest regions of the state. This is a very important matter, especially as it emphasizes the increased interest manifested by the national government in the forest reserve movement, which is also rapidly deepening in our own state.

DELAY IN SENDING OUT 1898 REPORT.-The indulgence of our members has been called into play in the delay in this matter. The printers were unable to get them out as early as we would liked, and there is still a shortage, which it is hoped may not be for long. It is a good book when it comes. Meantime you may give away the 1898 magazines, as it is sure to reach you soon.

LUGGER'S REPORT ON INSECTS INJURIOUS TO FRUITS.-Prof. Otto Lugger, entomologist at the State Experiment Station, has just published what seems to the writer a very full and comprehensive report on a subject of great interest to horticulturists, "Insects Injurious to Fruit Producing Plants," but the professor says, however, there is more to follow. The book, for it is worthy this name, contains some 330 pages and is profusely illustrated with cuts and halftone plates. With its aid every fruit grower should be able to know and discipline his own bugs at will. A copy can be had free on application to the State Experiment Station, at St. Anthony Park.

OUR PRINTING APPROPRIATION BILL.-The bill now before the legislature, for the purpose of providing for the printing of the society, increases the number of bound volumes by one thousand, with the purpose of using the additional number in the public school libraries of the state. There are many more than this number of such libraries in the state, but it is not thought probable that more than this will apply for them. There is still an opportunity to communicate with your representatives in the legislature as to this bill, which is fraught with so much importance to the society, and if you have not already done so, please look upon it as a privilege, and do so at once.

THE FOREST RESERVE LAW.-A bill almost identical with that presented to the legislature two years since on this subject, and

published in our monthly at that time, is again before that body, and with a reasonable probability of its passage. There is a grow. ing interest in the subject of forest preservation and reproduction, which is full of hope for the great pine forests of our state. A movement is making also to secure a large pine reserve at Itasca lake, and the fire-warden's law is receiving attention. A bill for the usual appropriation for the state forestry association is also pending. If you are interested in any of these things, which are all of such importance to Minnesota, you may exercise the prerogative of every American citizen and "interview" the delegation from your district thereto. The true legislator wants what his constituents want, if he can find this out.

REGULATION OF THE INTRODUCTION AND SALE OF NURSERY STOCK.-The bill for this purpose, the preparation which was provided for at the last annual meeting of the society, has been put in shape, and was some days since introduced. We have not yet seen a copy of the completed bill, but know that much pains has been taken in its preparation to guard properly all the interests at stake. With similar laws in reference to the San José scale, etc., in so many of the states, there is an apparent necessity of our state adopting some such legislation. Should the law in its operation prove to bear injuriously in any direction, it will be an easy matter at any subsequent session to secure its amendment. Canada has a very drastic law on this subject which entirely excludes nursery stock shipped from the United State. The fruit growers of Manitoba are trying to secure a modification of it which will admit stock from Minnesota. Their chances of success will be very much greater if our state makes provision for the inspection of its nurseries, as the proposed law does.

The bill as drawn permits the shipment of nursery stock from any state in the union or Canada, provided the nursery from which it comes has been duly inspected and found apparently free from San José scale or other injurious insects and diseases. It also requires the same kind of inspection for nurseries in the state. Small fruit growers who sell plants at home and do not ship, are exempted from this inspection. It requires a bond of $1,000 from nurserymen and dealers who solicit orders on the road, as surety that they will comply with the provisions of the act, the bond to be given either by private individuals or an indemnity company. It shuts no nurserymen nor dealer nor any inspected nursery stock out of the state, but throws such safeguards around the business as to give a reasonable degree of protection to planters. The argument against the measure, that in spite of inspection this dangerous insect may slip in, is one that may be employed with equal force in reference to the efforts to exclude small-pox or cholera. In spite of the imperfectness of such inspections they are found very useful, and in large measure subserve the purposes designed. We hope for much good from the operations of this measure, should it be come a law. Copies of the bill can be secured later from members of the legislature, as it will soon be in print there without doubt.