188 HISTORY OF HORTICULTURE IN MINNESOTA. 



Gen. Kutting moved that the thanks of the Society be extended to the 

 committee for their valuable report, which motion was adopted. 



The Secretary, for the past year, Mr. McKinstry, was called up by the men- 

 tion of a vote of thanks for his services, and stated that his engagements 

 were such, in the future, as to prevent him from giving any attention to the 

 duties of that office, had he been still in the position. 



Gen. Nutting thought it would be impossible to publish the entire proceed- 

 ings of the Society, and, indeed, that it would be inexpedient to publish the 

 doubts and struggles of the Society for its first fcAV years. He thought that 

 a closely written history of the Society', with a two years' history of the As- 

 sociation, since it occupied a more established position, would be sufficient. 



Col. Philip Harris took the same view of the case as Gen. Nutting : he did 

 not think it would be profitable to anybody. 



Judge Baker said that these hard experiences were what was wanted, for 

 the information of other States west of us yet to spring up. 



Gen. Xutting said that he was glad they had succeeded, and now he wished 

 to cast the whole thing behind him. That if we wished to publish this great 

 compilation we could not get Legislative aid. 



Col. Stevens said the difficulties were very great in getting such a compi- 

 lation, that the nine years' record were scattered everywhere, from here to 

 Rochester and Omaha. 



Gen, Nutting said, let the people of Omaha keep the four years' record 

 they already had, that was enough for them. The Legislature cared nothing 

 about our failures and disappointments. They wanted the evidence of our 

 success. 



Mr. Dart thought a book small enough to be readily perused would be the 

 most valuable ; we wanted information by the shortest cut. We ought to 

 condense this matter, make abstracts, and M'e should better meet the wants 

 of the age than b}' anything more extensive. 



Mr. Elliot moved to dispose of the whole matter by referring to a commit- 

 tee of three. 



Col. Stevens thought something ought to be said about the efforts of the 

 pioneers in this struggle, Dr. Ames, and others, to whom all the success Avit 

 nessed here to-day, was due. He, himself, proposed to receive nothing for 

 his own labor — in the compilation — only expected to incur cost for a clerk to 

 transcribe facts. He thought such a history ought to be given. 



Mr. Ford seconded Mr. Elliot's motion to refer. 



Mr. Dart moved that the committee be instructed to condense said history 

 as far as possible. 



The Chairman named as the committee. Col. Stevens, Judge Baker and 

 Wyman Elliot, 



The Chairman named the following committees : 



On Orchards and Vineyards— O. F. Brand, Faribault ; C. P. Cook, Garden 

 City; P. A. Jewell, Lake City; C. B. Sheldon, Excelsior: Lewis Martin, 

 Anoka. 



On Evergreens — J. T. Grimes, Minneapolis; A. C. Hamilton, Winona; I. 

 F. Gilmore, Faribault. 



