egree they are a
fertilizer, though in no degree comparable in this respect to hardwood
ashes. Yet it has been proved that soil to which sifted coal ashes had
been added grew plants of richer, darker foliage. They must be very well
mixed with the soil by a thorough spading and forking.

The following experiment was noted in the Garden Magazine: A soil was
prepared as follows: One-eighth stable manure, one-eighth leaf mold,
one-quarter garden soil (heavy), one-half sifted coal ashes. Plants
grown in this soil surpassed those grown in the garden soil next to
them.

Coal ashes would not be advised for a light soil.

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Watch this page for announcement of Garden Flower Society meetings.

January 20th, Public Library, Minneapolis, Tenth and Hennepin,
Directors' Room, 2:30 p.m.

SUBJECTS:

Hotbeds, coldframes, management and care of the young plants, Mr. Frank
H. Gibbs.

The Minnesota Cypripediums. Can they be successfully cultivated? Miss
Clara Leavitt.

Five-minute talks on "The Best Things of 1915."

Members are urged to bring their friends to this meeting. No one who
contemplates having a garden this year can afford to miss it. Let us be
generous and share our good programs with as many as possible. Each
member is host or hostess for that day.

SECRETARY'S CORNER

ANNUAL MEETING WISCONSIN STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCY.--This
meeting is to be held at Madison, Wis., on January 5-7. Mr. Chas.
Haralson, superintendent of our State Fruit-Breeding Farm, is to
represent this society at that meeting. We may look for an interesting
report from him in the February issue of our monthly.

IS YOUR ANNUAL FEE PAID?--If not, won't you please send it in
promptly, remitting by a $1.00 bill, which is a safe medium of payment,
instead of using check unless you draw on a bank in one of the larger
cities of the state. Checks on country banks, as a rule, can only be
collected here by a payment of ten cents, which the society can ill
afford to pay for so many members.

ANNUAL MEETING S.D. HORT. SOCY.--The annual gathering of this
sister association will be held in Huron, S.D., January 18-20. Quite a
good many of our members live so near the state line that they may find
it convenient to attend this meeting, which will certainly be a
profitable one. Prof. N. E. Hansen is secretary. Mr. Wm. Pfaender, Jr.,
of New Ulm, is to be the representative of this society at the South
Dakota meeti