STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 59 



TC'ESDAY MORNING, JAN. ITtH. 



Upon motion of Mr. Gibbs, it was decided that premiums be award- 

 ed apples shown, and not named on premium list, in place of some 

 named on premium list, and not shown. 



Messrs Grimes and Hollister, as members of Committee on Legisla- 

 tion, reported that our claims had been recognized b}- the legislature, 

 and an appropriation of one thousand dollars per j^ear been secured. 



The following resolution offered b3' Mr. Emery was adopted : 



Resolved, that the thanks of this society be, and are hereby tendered to the gov- 

 ernor and members of the legislature for the appropriation made last win'er for the 

 encouragement of Horticulture, particularly to Hon. Daniel Buck, of Mankato, for 

 his care of the measure, and to our committee on legislation for their faithful at- 

 tention to their duties in laboring for the appropriation. 



Mr. Jordan, strongly urged upon the society, the appointment of a 

 committee to secure proper legislation to do away with the law taxing 

 nursery stock. 



Upon motion of Mr. Dart, a committee was appointed to draft a 

 memorial to the next legislature, relative to taxing nursery stock. 

 Committee appointed: E. H. S. Dart. E. B. Jordan, U. S. Hollister. 



The discussion of Mr. Pearce's paper was next taken up. Mr. 

 Harris thought it perfectly safe to dig trees as soon as Oct. 15th. 



Mr. Pearce explained, that if a tree Avas dug early in the fall, it 

 must not be planted until the ground warmed in the spring. 



E. B. Jordan replied as follows to Mr. Pearce's paper: 



If all our springs were uniform in temperature and rain-falls, we might arrive at 

 a certain result by some uniform practice, but experience has taught us that we have 

 no certain basis in our climate, such as setting trees the 20tli of May, for the majority 

 of springs a drouth sets in about the 1st of May, that lasts some springs from four 

 to six or eight weeks, then good bye to all your late set trees. 



Tn a few words my experience has been as follows: 



The spring of '78 I set 3000 trees in ]\Iarch, and out of the 3000 I did not lose a 

 tree. One spring some eight years since, I set trees in holes on the ice, many of the 

 holes filling most full of water. This planting was done in March, and all the trees 

 grew and did well. These two out of twelve successive years of planting trees, were 

 the most successful, yet there might be springs when a tree planted late, may do 

 equally well, but it would Vte the exception. 



8econd, that the cold winters do not kill our hardy fruit trees; well, this is a hard 

 question to answer, because it is sun ply based upon a negative assertion. He does 

 not inidertake to tell us what does kill them, but by close observation it has been 

 fidlii determined that all varieties of fruit bearing trees and vines will withstand 

 just so low a temperature. 



The trees of the orange, lemon and fig, kill with a few degrees of freezing in 

 every instance, there being no exceptions. The peach will witiistnnd \f) to 20 below 



