Market {Miss Sabra Ellison
{Mr. F. H. Ellison
7. Special Purpose Plants--
Honey Plants Prof. Oswald
Medicinal Plants Dr. Newcomb

Question Box.

SECRETARY'S CORNER

THIS IS YOUR VACATION.--If you are a fruit grower or a flower
grower or vegetable grower or interested in home life or in any of the
varied matters directly or indirectly connected with horticulture, the
annual meeting is just the place for you. _Make it a real winter
vacation._ Bring your wife and others of the family if possible and stay
with us at the West Hotel for the four days of the meeting. It will be
one of the bright spots in your life, as you recall the pleasures of
this great and fruitful gathering.

ANNUAL SOCIETY BANQUET.--Special pains have been taken in
preparing the program for this banquet on account of the fact that this
is our anniversary session in part, and you will not be disappointed if
you anticipate a rich treat, with two or three hundred of the most
congenial people on earth, who will sit down to supper together at the
West Hotel at 6:30 p. m., Thursday, December 7th,--a wholesome repast
and an intellectual feast, don't miss it. You will feel that you really
belong to the brotherhood after dining with us.

DELEGATES TO THE ANNUAL MEETING.--Besides the delegates at our
annual meeting from abroad referred to in the November number, there is
to be with us also as representative of the Iowa State Horticultural
Society, Mr. P. F. Kinne, of Storm Lake, Iowa. We have pretty good
assurance also that Secy. Greene, of the Iowa Society, will visit with
us at some time during the meeting, and we don't know how many more of
the good Iowa people will find their way here. A late note from Chas. G.
Patten assures us of his attendance at the meeting, when he will give us
a full report of his experimental work in growing seedling pears at his
station at Charles City, Iowa. We are looking forward confidently to
something of large practical value from his work.

PROGRAM OF ANNUAL MEETING.--The program of the coming annual
meeting of the society will be found in an abbreviated form in this
number of our magazine. It has been sent, however, in all its
completeness, in a separate enclosure to all the members of the society,
accompanied by a blank form to be filled out by members who purpose to
attend and desire to have their names