ANNUAL MEETING, I9O5, MINN. STATE HORT. SOCIETY. 5 



Pres, Wedge's address, when read, was found to contain as the 

 crux of the address the practical suggestion of an inner circle of 

 members of the society who are willing to undertake to grow 

 seedling fruits and flowers for the production of new and improved 

 varieties. The attention of our readers is called to this suggestion as 

 it appears in the address referred to, which will be found printed in 

 this number. The nurseryman's program so-called, though it fitted 

 in equally well for the planters of nursery stock, proved to be a 

 drawing one and brought to the meeting an unusually large number 

 of nurserymen, whose presence contributed much tO' the special in- 

 terest of the occasion. The Woman's Auxiliary fully occupied the 

 time alloted and gave us one of the best sessions of the meeting. A 

 number of requests have come in for the publication of the articles 

 presented at that session. The calendar program for May and June 

 on Thursday morning was fully represented, every number being in 

 its place. These papers with the discussions accompanying them 

 will be found in the May number of our monthly. The Forestry 

 Association had a very full and interesting session. It would be in- 

 vidious to refer to any one special number on that program as de- 

 serving unusual notice, if it were not that Geo. H. Maxwell, repre- 

 senting the National Irrigation Association, has a wide reputation as 

 public speaker and was there from abroad upon urgent request, 

 All interested in knowing the present status of these two important 

 subjects, forestry and irrigation, should study his address carefully 

 as it will be found in a later number of our monthly. The Friday 

 morning session was devoted to storing and marketing the fruits of 

 the garden and orchard, and the subject was treated from many 

 standpoints, including those of the grower, dealer and shipper. 

 The climax of the meeting, as it was intended it should be, was the 

 last session of the last day of the meeting, when the subject of new 

 varieties of fruits held the boards and an intensely interested au- 

 dience for two and one-half hours, considering it both from a theo- 

 retical and practical standpoint. The writer would suggest that it 

 would be worth while to look up the program of this, as well as 

 other sessions of the meeting, to be prepared by its study for the ap- 

 pearance of these various papers noted therein as they are published 

 from time to time in our monthly. 



The general attendance at the meeting, was, as near as we can 

 judge, a little beyond that of the year before, the sessions averag- 

 ing from 150 to 250. From other states we had the pleasure of 

 entertaining about the usual number of deleo:ates, Prof. E. P. 



