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said committee. Their duties shall be to establish at least five ex- 

 perimental stations in the State for the testing of new varieties, 

 and to procure scions seeds and plants of such varieties as may ap- 

 pear desirable and distribute them for trial. The list shall embrace 

 apple and crab, , and may include any other variety of fruit, 

 flower, shrub or vegetable. It shall be the further duty of 

 the committee to note carefully the result of all experiments made 

 and to prepare a report for the annual meeting of our society. 



2d. That vre accept the offer made by the agricultural depart- 

 ment of our State University for establishing an experimental and 

 seedling orchard in the interest of our society, also the provisions 

 they so kindly offer us of a permanent home, and would recommend 

 the appointment of a librarian. 



3d. We recommend to the executive committee the appoint- 

 ment of Prof. Edward D. Porter, as delegate to the American 

 Pomological Society at Philadelphia in September next, and that 

 he have charge of making an exhibition of the fruits of Minnesota 

 at that time. Also that the executive committee make the neces- 

 sary provision for defraying the expenses, either from our treasury, 

 or a special appropriation from our State Legislature. 



4th. That the employment of an entomologist, and the publica- 

 tion in our transactions of a brief practical paper on insects 

 injurious to fruits and vegetables, be referred to the executive com- 

 mittee, with power to act. 



5th. That the subject of a catalogue of our fruit be referred 

 to the committe on seedlings and that they be requested to pre- 

 pare a list of fruit with a brief descriptiou of season, quality, &c. 



6th. That the secretary shall place in the library of the society 

 500 copies of the bound volumes of the transactions of each year, 

 to preserve for future use. That the balance be distributed, first 

 in compliance with the law to the legislature, to county societies 

 and to corresponding bodies and persons, and to life and annual 

 members, and secondly, the balance to be distributed to members 

 and reliable men through the State, who shall give them away to 

 those who will be likely to be most benefited by them. 



G. W. FULLER, 



J. M. UNDERWOOD, 



WM. McHENRY. 



The report was taken up by sections and the 1st, 2d, 3d and 4th 

 sections adopted without debate. 



The question being on the adoption of section 5, Mr. Underwood 

 said the catalogue contemplated was to be more elaborate than 



