Il6 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Patten stated that white pine is not particular about the soil. He 

 also recommended Scotch pine for windbreaks, three to five rows, 

 i6 to i8 feet apart. There was a strong feeling against the 

 Scotch pine on account of it being crooked and unsightly when 

 it gets old. 



The election of officers resulted in C. G. Patten being elected 

 president; C. F. Gardner, vice-president; C. H. True, secretary; 

 and E. Blackman, treasurer. Directors: first district, Elmer 

 Reeves, Waverly ; second district, W A. Burnap, Clear Lake; 

 third district, W. H. Guilford, Dubuque. Charles City, the home 

 of the president, was selected as the next place of meeting. 



ANNUAL MEETING, 1906, SOUTHERN MINNESOTA 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



L. P. H. HIGHLY, ALBERT LEA, ACTING SECRETARY. 



The thirteenth annual meeting of the So. Minn. Society was 

 held in the court chamber at the city hall in Albert Lea on Jan. 

 ■22 and 23, 1906. It was a decided success in every respect. The 

 display of fruit was splendid. Provision for free cold storage 

 had been provided by the Freeborn Co. Society last fall in order 

 to have a good exhibition on this occasion. Several hundred 

 plates of fall and winter apples were shown, and most of them 

 were very fine. Mr. Clarence Wedge alone exhibited fifty-four 

 varieties of apples. A number of seedlings was shown, some of 

 which were of merit. 



The local attendance was good, and there is no mistaking the 

 fact that the interest in horticulture is a growing one in this 

 section. The attendance from outside Freeborn county was not 

 large. Among the visitors who helped make the meeting such 

 a success were the following gentlemen : Livingston, of Spring 

 Valley ; Richardson, Winnebago ; Reeves, Waverly ; Gardner, 

 Osage; Chairlain, Northwood, Iowa, and Nutter, of Minneapolis. 



The following program was carried out as announced : 



FIRST SESSION, MONDAY AFTERNOON. 



"An Experience with Fifty Varieties in a Minnesota Or- 

 chard," F. W. Kimball, Austin, Minn. 



"The Farm Orchard, as It Is and as It Ought to be," T. E. 

 >,'oble, Manchester, Minn. 



"Three Years' Experience with Raspberries and Straw- 

 berries," M. E. Giles, Albert Lea. 



"Transforming a Hibernal Orchard," Christ Berthelson, Al- 

 bert Lea, Minn. 



