nd as far north as New Ulm.

Like all good things it has had a hard fight to overcome its opponents.
At the time it was introduced here there were Ben Davis and other tender
varieties delivered in its place in certain localities. These not being
hardy of course gave the Salome a black eye. Nevertheless it is an apple
that should be grown extensively because of its hardiness, its clean
appearance and upright growth, spreading just enough to admit air and
light.

Its fruit will keep in ordinary cellars until May or June. It is medium
in size and color, red streaked with green and yellow. Flesh is yellow
and sub acid. Like all winter varieties it is slow to come in bearing
but yielding heavily when it does bear, whenever other varieties do. Let
us not lose sight of this excellent fruit in our desire to produce
something new and original.

How May the State University and the Horticultural Society Best
Co-Operate?

GEO. E. VINCENT, PRESIDENT MINN. STATE UNIVERSITY, MINNEAPOLIS.

Now, so far as I can understand, the only excuse for interpolating me in
a program of this kind is that you are giving so much attention to
technical subjects, you are working so hard, you need from time to time
relief in order that you may not suffer from brain fever or any of the
ailments of overstudy. I am confident from this point of view anything I
may have to say will meet that need completely.

The relationship between this society and the university strikes me as
typically American. There are two ways of doing things--leaving public
undertakings entirely to private initiative, to individuals, to
voluntary groups; that is one plan. There is another plan which consists
in putting everything into the hands of the state. Constituted authority
takes charge of the whole life of the citizen's, all the activities and
enterprise are made public, state affairs.

Those are the two extremes. The dangers of those two methods are very
obvious. Many enterprises left to private initiative will be done in
haphazard fashion; there will be duplication and waste. When the state
undertakes all these enterprises it changes the whole aspect. Public
management may make for a certain efficiency, but it sooner or later
undermines the initiative, the feeling of responsibility of the
individual. We are a practical people, we compromise and combine the
various methods of doing things. It is the typical American way to
combine private initiative with a ce