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HORTICULTURE 



July 26, 1913 



NEWS FROM THE CONVENTION 

 CITY. 



Minnesota State Horticultural Society. 



Forty-seven years ago at the state 

 fair held at Rochester Minn, a dozen 

 enthusiastic horticulturists got to- 

 gether and organized the Minnesota 

 State Horticultural Society. This or- 

 ganization has held annual and most 

 of the years semi-annual meetings ever 

 since and has steadily increased In 

 members and influence until the past 

 few years the membership has been 

 approximately 3000. Of this number 

 about 300 are life members, the rest 

 paying an annual fee of $1.00 each. 

 Liiie most of the state horticultural 

 societies of the country, and especially 

 those of the northern states, the so- 

 ciety is supported by the state to such 

 extent as is necessary in addition to 

 the amount received from membership 

 dues. 



Of the twelve members who organ- 

 ized the society the last one, Mr. 

 Wyman Elliot, passed away a few 

 weel?s ago. There is a very limited 

 number of the older members who 

 joined the society a year or two after 

 its organization still living, and one of 

 these is A. W. Latham, secretary of 

 the society who is holding the oflice 

 now for the twenty-third year. 



The society publishes besides its 

 annual report a monthly magazine of 

 forty pages, which medium of com- 

 munication within the membership is 

 found to be very helpful and strength- 

 ening to the organization. In this 

 northwest country, with its peculiar 

 climate and soil conditions there are 

 many new problems to work out in 

 horticulture, and especially In fruit 

 growing, and the urgent necessity of 

 their solution have something to do 

 no doubt with the strength and vigor 

 of this organization. 



Acting under the advice of the 

 State Horticultural Society the state 

 a few years ago purchased a tract of 

 land suitable for the purpose and has 

 now in operation for some time in 

 conjunction with the society a farm 

 for the sole purpose of breeding new 

 fruits adapted to local conditions. 

 Many of these new fruits are now be- 

 ing distributed, and they are going 

 largely to the members of the State 

 Horticultural Society for testing. This 

 fact is adding much to the general in- 

 terest in the work of ithe society. 

 While it is strictly a state organization 

 yet it has been found advisable to ac- 

 cept memberships from adjacent states 

 as a fraternal bond is found to be very 

 helpful in prosecuting a work common 

 to a much larger area than contained 

 in the State of Minnesota. 



The society has a fine library and 

 well furnished suite of three offices in 

 the Kasota building in the city of 

 Minneapolis. The various bulletins on 

 horticulture issued by the state ex- 

 periment stations of the country and 

 the government stations are to be 

 found here readily accessible through 

 the medium of card indexes. These 

 offices are not confined to members of 

 the society alone but are open to the 

 public also, and are quite generally 

 used as the means of securing horticul- 

 tural information as regards any part 

 of the country. 



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