5. When taking out, or sending for a book, a charge of ten cents is made to cover expense of recording, transmission, etc.
6. Books are mailed to members only in Minnesota and states immediately adjoining. When sent to points outside the state a charge of fifteen cents is made.
7. A book can be kept two weeks: If kept longer a charge of two cents per day will be made.
8. The library list, to December 1, 1915, is published in the 1915 annual volume of the society. Additions to this list will be published year by year in the succeeding annual volumes.
GARDEN HELPS
Conducted by Minnesota Garden Flower Society
Edited by Mrs. E. W. Gould, 2644 Humboldt Avenue So. Minneapolis.
Mr. H. H. Whetzel, of the plant disease survey, U. S. Department of Agriculture, stationed at Cornell University, where the American Peony Society has its test grounds, has made a study of the stem-rot disease of the peony and has set forth the results in an address before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, from which the following has been culled: