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and thousands of careful experimenters to try and produce it. 

 Our Minnesota legislature has given us an annual appropriation 

 of one thousand dollars to aid in the general purposes of our 

 society, and from this we have voted to lay by $200 per year, 

 till we accumulate a fund of ten or twelve hundred dollars to 

 be given in premiums on secviling apples. The rules to govern 

 in oJlering and awarding the premiums are now under considera- 

 tion, and on this matter we ask your counsel, not only with ref- 

 erence to the final awards, if ever to be made, as we hope they 

 may be, and deservedly, but in obtaining and spreading before 

 the people a knowledge of how to begin the work of propagating 

 new varieties, with as few of the elements of chance or uncer- 

 tainty as possible. 



Tbe resolution of our soaiety in regard to a fruit and tree 

 planter's manual is as follows : 



Resolution adopted at annual winter meeting of Minnesota 

 State Horticultural Society, January 21, 1882 : 



Jiesoked, That a committee of three be appointed to confer with the Horti- 

 cultural Societies of Wisconsin and Iowa, looking to the appointment of a 

 similar committee from the societies of those slates. The joint committee of 

 nine (9) to compile a hand-book of instruction, for the use of Ilorliculturists. 

 Said book to be a brief synopsis of desirable varieties; how to plant them, 

 subsequent cultivation, etc. Said book not to exceed one hundred and fifty- 

 pages, or to cost each society a sum exceeding one hundred dollars, and to 

 be indorsed by each society before publication. 



(Copy.) 



O. Gibbs, Jr., our representative to the "Wisconsin meeting, was 

 appointed one of the committee, and requested to present it to 

 the Wisconsin meeting. 



U. S. HOLLISTEK, 



Secretary Minnesota State Horticultural Society. 



Mr. Stickney, in response, said that he was in favor of cooper- 

 ation between the societies as far as it might be feasible, but he 

 was in doubt whether it would be in all the points mentioned. 

 Surely there are some things in which the experience of each 

 might be beneficial to the other, but it would not in all. An ex- 

 -change of reports and the interchange of delegates at each other's 



