26 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



executive board, A. W. Latham, Wyman Elliot, A. K. Bush, O. C 

 Gregg-, Prof. S. B. Green. 



President Loring read a most valuable and suggestive paper on 

 the economic value of shade trees, citing instances in which their 

 valuation by courts of justice had been placed as high as $400. 



President Loring followed his paper v;ith stereoptican 

 views illustrating the beauty that trees add to the landscape and the 

 desolate monotonv of village street or countrv road without shade. 



ANNUAL MEETING, 1905, IOWA STATE HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



DEWAIN COOK, JEFFERS, DELEGATE. 



Tuesday morning, December 12, found your delegate at the 

 Iowa State Capitol, in Des Moines, where a session of the Iowa 

 State Horticultural Society was being held in the society library 

 room. We were given a most cordial reception and made an 

 honorary member. 



In the hall adjoining the society's room there was being placed 

 upon the table many splendid collections of apples, also a ieW plates 

 of pears from southern and central districts. The apples showed 

 that with the exception of extreme cold in winter the fruit growers 

 of Iowa have to contend with the same adverse conditions that we 

 have in Minnesota. While the fruit from all of their three fruit 

 districts was fine, we noticed that the northern district had the 

 largest display, and, we thought, the most perfect fruit. 



Mr. L. A. Clemens, of Storm Lake, had a fine collection of 

 seedling apples, one of which impressed me as being worthy of trial 

 in Minnesota. It is "a large, red striped apple and is named the 

 Clemens. 



Mr. C. G. Patten, oi Charles City, exhibited some forty varieties 

 of cross bred apples, products of the experiment station of which he 

 is superintendent. This table of seedhngs, produced so near the 

 Minnesota line, compared favorably with adjoining tables of named 

 varieties. It seems to us that Mr. Patten has produced much that 

 may be of value to us who live in Minnesota. 



The Iowa State Agricultural Society was also in session in one 

 of the rooms of the capitol, and they had the best exhibition of corn 

 upon the tables that the writer has ever seen. 



The horticultural sessions were conducted in a leisurely 

 manner, as the program was not crowded. Those who were on the 

 program to read papers usually handed them to the secretary and 

 then gave an extemporaneous talk along the lines of which the paper 

 treated. There was plenty of time for discussion. The papers and 

 discussions were mostly from a commercial standpoint and very lit- 



