TIMELY NOTES IN OUR MONTHLY.—­There will be in our monthly magazine during most of the rest of the months of the year five pages devoted to timely topics.  The experience of the past year or two in this direction encourages us to believe that this will prove to be the most valuable portion of our monthly.  One page, as heretofore, will be operated in the interest of garden flowers, edited by Mrs. E. W. Gould; another page, prepared by Prof.  R.S.  Mackintosh, under the head of “fruit notes,” which subject indicates clearly its purpose.  Prof.  Francis Jager, the Apiarist at University Farm, will prepare another page, pertaining to the keeping of bees.  Prof.  F.L.  Washburn, the State Entomologist, will have a page devoted to insect life as interesting the horticulturist.  The fifth page will be handled by Profs.  A.G.  Ruggles and E.C.  Stakman jointly devoted entirely to the subject of “spraying.”  Each issue of the magazine will contain these notes as applying to the month just following.  They will be found well worth studying.

ARE YOU A LIFE MEMBER?—­Of course if you are interested in the work of the Horticultural Society and likely to live ten years you ought to be a life member.  Experience with this roll for twenty-five years now as secretary of the society indicates that a life membership in the society is almost an assurance that you will prolong your days.  A list of deaths in the life membership roll published year by year would indicate that our life members are going to be with us far beyond the average span of human life.  Since publishing a list of new life members in the February Horticulturist, there have been added to this life list five names:  Tosten E. Dybdal, Elbow Lake, Minn.; Gust Carlson, Excelsior; A.N.  Gray, Deerwood; A.M.  Christianson, Bismarck, N.D.; Chas. H. Lien, St. Cloud.

If you have already paid your annual fee for this year, send us $4.00 more and your name will be placed on the life roll with the balance of $5.00 to be paid one year from how—­or send $9.00, and that makes a full payment.

[Illustration:  HORTICULTURAL BUILDING (SHOWING NEW GREENHOUSES ATTACHED) AT UNIVERSITY FARM, ST. ANTHONY PARK, MINN.]

While it is not the intention to publish anything in this magazine that is misleading or unreliable, yet it must be remembered that the articles published herein recite the experience and opinions of their writers, and this fact must always be noted in estimating their practical value.

THE MINNESOTA HORTICULTURIST

Vol. 44 APRIL, 1916 No. 4

Dwarf Apple Trees.

DR. O.M.  HUESTIS, MINNEAPOLIS.

I have here a sample of McIntosh Red grown on a standard tree—­a beautiful apple and well colored.  Here I have the same variety grown on one of my dwarf trees, not quite as well colored.

Now, the dwarf tree that bore these apples has been planted two years; this is the second year of its growth in my own ground at Mound, on Lake Minnetonka.