STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 35 



The hour for the picnic dinner having now arrived, and the 

 coramitee ot" the whole upon the state of the strawberries and 

 lunch baskets being ready to proceed to business, and the usual 

 resolutions of thanks to the citizens of Minneapolis, the press and 

 the railroads, and especially to the officers and students of the 

 University, having been voted for hospitalities and benefits received, 

 the society formally adjourned at 12 o'clock, noon, and immedi- 

 ately re-asserabhd, informally, in the lecture room above, with 

 their families, their friends, visitors and guests; and the Mmne- 

 apolis delegation, acting as hosts for the occasion, the entire stock 

 of strawberries on exhibition was submitted for sampling without 

 reserve. Crescents and Wilsons, Downings and Captain Jacks, 

 Greene's Prolifics and Downer's, Red Jackets and Iowa Prolifics, 

 Hart's Seedlings and Minnetonka Chiefs, Countess de Harricourts 

 and Eurekas, and all the other rival favorites contended for the 

 bauble reputation at the taster's mouth, till appetites were satis- 

 fied and time was up; and of the remains of the feast, there were 

 gathered up and sent to absent friends in the city, an abundance 

 of strawberries of best samples yet untouched. 



At one o'clock Wyman Elliot and his associates of the Minne- 

 apolis delegation appeared on the campus with carriages for the 

 excursion around the city and its suburbs, and the members pres- 

 ent and their guests taking seats therein, disappeared as a body 

 from the view, at the rate of about twelve miles an hour. And 

 now the secretary, halting between official propriety as a recorder 

 of the society's transactions when duly assembled, and his impres- 

 sion that a vote of thanks ought to appear here for the share of 

 Wyman Elliot and his associates of the Minneapolis delegation in 

 the afternoon's piloting of the party, especially among the market 

 gardens and strawberry and raspberry plantations of Minnetonka, 

 Richfield and Minneapolis, where most valuable lessons in horti- 

 culture were learned for future benefits in the society, begs leave 

 to reserve a blank, indicated by the following stars, and requests 

 the members of the excursion party from outside of Minneapolis 

 to fill it up and gild it with the happiest terms they can devise to 

 that effect. ****** 



Orders drawn on treasurer as follows: 



Oliver Gibbs, Jr., on salary as secretary $50.00 



J, S. Harris, president's expenses . . 7.00 



Premiums awarded : 



Fruits $42.00 



Plants and flowers 34.00 



Vegetables 10.50 



$86.50 



