MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



tinually presented at such gatherings. The executive officers of 

 the society to be balloted upon at this time, including the presi- 

 dent, two members of the executive board, and the treasurer, 

 were all re-elected without opposition, and the same may be said 

 of the officers of the Woman's Auxiliary, Miss Emma V. White 

 continuing as president and Mrs. Anna B. Underwood as secre- 

 tary. There was a complete change in the list of vice-presidents 

 of the horticultural society, made with the purpose of securing 

 report from the various congressional districts of the state from 

 different standpoints than those received the past year, the mak- 

 ing of such reports being the special duty of the vice-presidents. 



A FEW OF THE OI,D MEMBERS. 



1. J. A. Howard 3. A. J. Philips 5. W. t,. Taylor 7. S. H. Kenney 



2. Wyman Elliot 4. Prof. N. E. Hanson 6. F. J. Cowles 8. J. S. Parks 



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PECKS OF WEAI^THY SHOWN AT ANNUAI^ MEETING. 



The exhibit of fruit, made as last year in the basement room 

 of the building occupied, the First Unitarian Church of Minne- 

 apolis, was large enough to completely fill the room and con- 

 sisted of 1,051 plates of fruit and eighteen pecks of apples, to 

 say nothing of a number of pyramids and mounds of apples dis- 

 played by individual exhibitors. The exhibit is divided approxi- 

 mately as follows : Single plates, entries 475, private exhibits 

 245; exhibit of seedling apples 225, of which 125 made up the 

 exhibit from the seedling orchard of T. E. Perkins, of Red Wing. 

 There were shown eleven pecks of Wealthy apples, two pecks of 

 PattQu's Greening apples, one peck of Northwestern Greening 

 apples. There were also six collections of apples of ten varieties 

 each. Thirty-six plates of grapes were also on exhibition. This 



