APPENDIX. 



NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING, 1883. 



The annual meeting of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society for 1883, wil 

 be held at the Agricultural Hall of the State University, Minneapolis, commencing 

 on the third Tuesday, the 16th of January, and continuing four days. Full pro- 

 gramme and premium list will be issued hereafter. 



Among the premiums olfered are $25.00 for the best essay on the propagation of 

 improved seedling fruits, and $25.00 for tlie best essay on the management of orch- 

 ards in Minnesota. The essay on orchards must include the selection of site, pre- 

 paration of soil, ciioice of varieties, general care and cultivation, pruning, budding' 

 grafting, protection from severities of seasons and from insects, Imrvesting and 

 marketing of fruit, etc These essays should ))e sent to the Secretary, or notice 

 given him, before the date tixed for the meeting in order that a place may be re- 

 served for them in the programme. All essays offered for these jnemiinns are to 

 be the pr()j)erty of the Society, to be published at its discretion. 



Premiums will also be offered in the progrannne for winter fruits, flowers, ])lauts 

 and vegetables. 



Features of special interest in the exhiljits will be displays of seedling apples and 

 new varieties of potatoes. Prof. Edward 1). Porter of the State University, has 

 kindly olfered to receive and store for the exhibition, any specimens of fruits o'" 

 other products of agriculture or horticulture sent him for that purpose. He has 

 every convenience to keep them in good condition. 



By arrangement with Prof. Porter, the week of the meeting of the State Horti. 

 cultural Society, will l)e the Horticultural Week of the "-Farmers' Lecture Course''' 

 of the State University. The lectures engaged by him for that week will be deliv- 

 ered before the State Horticultural Society, and be published in its transactions. 

 Among them it is understood, there will be a lecture by Prof. C. V. Riley, Ento- 

 mologist of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, on Insects injurious to 

 Agriculture and Horticulture, and it will bo devoted specially to insects now 

 threatening the industries in the northwest. 



The membership fee in the State Horticultural Society is one dollar, and entitles 

 any person a voice and vote in all meetings and to the usual privileges of reduced 

 rates on railroads going and returning from the meetings, and to hospitalities ex- 

 tended to memljers at place of meetings; also to the annual reports or transactions. 

 Persons joining before the next annual meeting will be entitled to transactions fcr 

 1882-3, and to membership for both years. 



Special Notice to Members: — It is understood that a competent short hand rei^orter 

 will be employed at the annual meeting to take down the discussions, verbatim for 

 the use of the Secretary in editing the transactions, and that the published reports 

 will be as full and complete as space will allow. 



For further information address, 



OLIVER GIBBS, Jr., Acting Secretary. 



Lake City, Minn. 



