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 colo