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.