Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916. Various
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Название: Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916
Автор: Various
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GARDEN HELPS
Conducted by Minnesota Garden Flower Society
Edited by Mrs. E. W. Gould, 2644 Humboldt Avenue So. Minneapolis.
At the annual meeting the following officers and members of the Executive Committee were elected.
Officers—Mrs. E. W. Gould, President, 2644 Humboldt Ave. S., Minneapolis; Mrs. Phelps Wyman, Vice-President, 5017 Third Ave. S., Minneapolis; Mrs. M. L. Countryman, Secretary-Treasurer, 213 S. Avon St., St. Paul.
Directors—Mrs. F. H. Gibbs, St. Anthony Park; Mr. G. C. Hawkins, Minneapolis; Miss Elizabeth Starr, Minneapolis; Mrs. H. A. Boardman, St. Paul; Mr. F. W. Bell, Wayzata; Mr. F. F. Farrar, White Bear; Mrs. R. P. Boyington, Nemadji; Mrs. J. F. Fairfax, Minneapolis; Mrs. H. B. Tillotson, Minneapolis.
After a thorough discussion, it was unanimously agreed that more frequent meetings would be advisable. Our program committee has, therefore, planned for a meeting each month, alternating between St. Paul and Minneapolis. It was, of course, impossible to set the dates for the three flower shows so early in the year, or to announce all of the speakers. The program in full for each month will appear on this page, and we hope to save our secretary a great deal of routine work as well as considerable postage to the society. So watch this page for announcements. We hope the following program will prove both interesting and profitable, and that our members will bring friends to each meeting, all of which will begin at 2:30 o'clock promptly.
PROGRAM FOR 1916.
February 24. Wilder Auditorium, 2:30 p.m., Fifth and Washington St., St. Paul.
Soil Fertility, Prof. F. J. Alway.
Birds As Garden Helpers.
March 23. Public Library, Minneapolis, 2:30 p.m.
Work of the State Art Commission, Mr. Maurice Flagg.
How Can the Garden Flower Society Co-operate with It?
Our Garden Enemies.
Cultural Directions for Trial Seeds.
Distribution of Trial Seeds.
April 27. Wilder Auditorium, St. Paul, 2:30 p.m.
Native Plants in the Garden.
Roadside Planting.
Use and Misuse of Wild Flowers.
May. Date to be announced. Mazey Floral Co., 128 S. 8th, Minneapolis.
Informal Spring Flower Show.
What Our Spring Gardens Lack.
Good Ground Cover Plants. June. Date to be announced. University Farm, St. Paul, Joint Session with Horticultural Society. Flower Show. July. Date to be announced. Minneapolis Rose Gardens, Lake Harriet. Picnic Luncheon, 1:00 p.m. Roses for the Home Garden. Our Insect Helpers in the Garden. August. Date to be announced. Holm and Olson, 2:30, 20 W. Fifth St., St. Paul. Informal Flower Show. How to Grow Dahlias. The Gladiolus. September 21. Public Library, Minneapolis, 2:30 p.m. Fall Work in the Garden. Vines. Planting for Fall and Winter Effect. October 19. Wilder Auditorium, St. Paul, 2:30 p.m. What Other Garden Clubs Are Doing. How My Garden Paid. Reports on Trial Seeds. November. Date to be announced. Park Board Greenhouses, Bryant Ave. S. and 38th St., 2:30 p.m. Chrysanthemum Show. Hardy Chrysanthemums. December. Annual Meeting. {Mrs. Phelps Wyman, Program Committee. {Mrs. N. S. Sawyer, {Miss Elizabeth Starr, {Mrs. E. W. Gould,
BEE-KEEPER'S COLUMN.
Conducted by Francis Jager, Professor of Apiculture, University Farm, St. Paul.
Queen Bees for Breeding.—Queen bees for breeding purposes will be sent to beekeepers of the State from University Farm during the coming summer with instructions how to introduce them and how to re-queen the apiary. Mostly all bees in the state at present are hybrids, which are hard to manage. In many localities bees have been inbred for years, making the introduction of new blood a necessity. All queens sent out are bred from the leather colored Italian breeding queens of choicest stock obtainable. The price of queens will be fifty cents for one, and not more than three will be furnished to each beekeeper. Orders with cash must be sent directed to the "Cashier," University Farm, St. Paul, Minnesota. The queens will be sent out in rotation as soon as they are ready and conditions are right.
SECRETARY'S CORNER
Membership Numbers Change.—A good many members when sending in annual membership fee give the number of their membership for the previous year. Members will please note that membership numbers change each year, as all members are numbered in the order of their coming upon the membership roll. The only number that we care about in the office, if for any reason it is necessary to give it, is the number for the current year.
A Word from Prof. Whitten.—Prof. J. C. Whitten, of the University of Missouri, who was on the program at our annual meeting for three numbers, and at the last moment was taken ill and unable to be with us, has written describing the condition of his illness and expressing his deep regret at his enforced absence from our meeting, and a hope that at some other time he may have an opportunity to be with us. We shall look forward to having him on our program another year with eager anticipation. Prof. Whitten ranks as one of the most prominent of professional horticulturists of the country, and we are certainly fortunate in being able to secure his attendance, as we hope to do another year.
Members in Florida.—Quite a number of members of the Horticultural Society are spending the winter in Florida. Some of these the secretary knows about, but addresses of only two are at hand. J. M. Underwood, chairman of the executive board of the society, and family are at Miami, Fla., for the winter. Mr. Oliver Gibbs, at one time secretary of the society for a number of years, is at Melbourne Beach, on the east coast of Florida, where he has been now for some ten winters—and some summers also. His health makes it necessary for him to live in so mild a climate. We have the pleasure of meeting him here often during the summer. Now in his eighties he is nearly blind but otherwise in good health and always in cheerful spirits.
New Life Members.—Since the report of 1915 was printed, in which there will be found on page 520 a list of life members of the society, there have been added to the life membership roll fifteen names; five of these СКАЧАТЬ