ed the
trunk several times in the attempt to get permanently rid of this scale,
but up to last winter it seemed that all attempts were in vain. In
February of this year, when the broom was very thickly covered with the
scale, I bored a three-eighths inch hole in the trunk to a depth of
about three inches, filled the hole nearly full of crystals of potassic
cyanide, and plugged it up. In two days the scale began to fall from the
tree and in a few days all appeared dead. Others hatched and attacked
the tree, but lasted only a short time, and the tree has since been free
from scale and very vigorous."

NOTICE OF SUMMER MEETING, 1916

A JOINT SESSION OF THE MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY AND ITS
AUXILIARIES, THE MINNESOTA STATE GARDEN FLOWER SOCIETY, THE MINNESOTA
STATE BEE KEEPERS SOCIETY AND THE MINNESOTA STATE FLORISTS SOCIETY.

Will be held FRIDAY, JUNE 23rd, 1916, in the Gymnasium, at University
Farm, St. Paul.

THE GYMNASIUM BUILDING in which this meeting is to be held has
recently been constructed and only finished suitable for the uses of
this gathering within the past year. The grounds about it are still in
part in an unfinished condition. Directly south of this building are the
football grounds, originally a marshy tract, now filled in and leveled
off, with hillsides sloping upwards some thirty to forty feet on either
side, well shaded. These slopes would be excellent places for the picnic
dinner and the afternoon session except for the fact that they have
recently been seeded and are not yet in condition for use. The main room
in the gymnasium building, which is a very large room--at least three
times as large as the one occupied by our exhibit last year--will be
used for the fruit and flower display, and exhibitors can have access to
this hall early in the forenoon, though visitors will be barred from the
exhibition hall until 12:00 m. to give ample opportunity for placing and
judging the display.

The exhibition will remain in place undisturbed until 9:00 o'clock p.m.
The flowers will be distributed to the various hospitals in the Twin
Cities.

THE PREMIUM LIST accompanying this notice is practically the
same as last year, there being only a few minor changes, to which it
will not be necessary to refer here. The season, up to the time of
writing this notice at least, having been a favorable one we are
anticipating a large display of flowers, probably the finest ever shown
at any of our su