ill 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 were made honorary members by the unanimous vote of
the association for