AWARD OF PREMIUMS. 



II 



SPECIAL PREMIUMS. 



Best Early Winter Seedling Apple. — Fifty Wealthy trees, four to six feet, 

 offered by the Jewell Nursery Co., awarded to A. B. Lyman, Excelsior. 



Best Late Winter Seedling Apple. — Fifty Wealthy trees, four to six feet, 

 offered by Jewell Nursery Co., awarded to T. E. Perkins, Red Wing. 



SAMUEL B. GREEN, Judge. 



Peck of Patten's Greening Apples. — J. A. Howard, Hammond, first. Twelve 

 three-year-old apple trees, offered by W. H. Eddy, Howard Lake. 



H. L. Crane, Excelsior, second. Seventy-five gladiolus bulbs, offered by 

 W. E. Fryer, Mantorville. 



Peck of Northwestern Greening Apples. — D. F. Akin, Parmlngton. First, $6.00 

 In nursery stock, offered by Mitchell Nursery Co., Owatonna. 



CHAS. F. GARDNER, Judg«. 



List of varieties en 

 the number of plates 



Newell's Winter 



Jewell's Winter 



Scott's Winter 



Anisim 



Ben Davis 



Brett 



Borsdorff 



Cross 



Christmas 



Charlamoft 



Golden Russet 



Grundy 



Haas 



Judson 



Kaump 



Longfleld 



Malinda 



McMahon 



N. W. Greening 



Peter 



Phoebe 



Peach 



tered at the 1904 annual meeting as single plates, and 

 of each : 



Rollin's Prolific 3 Blushed Calville 1 



Red Queen 1 Lowland Raspberry ... 1 



Repka 2 Antonovka 2 



St. Lawrence 2 Borovinca 2 



Striped Anis 3 October 1 



Tetofsky 3 Giant Swaar 2 



Utter 6 Plumb Cider 1 



University 5 Ostrekof 1 



TVolf River 12 Yahnke 1 



White Pigeon 1 Fameuse 4 



Walbridge 4 CRAB APPLES. 



Yellow Sweet 1 Meader's Winter 2 



Yellow Transparent . . 1 Dartt 1 



Duchess 4 Gen. Grant 1 



Hibernal 9 Hyslop 2 



Okabena 9 Lyman's Prolific 2 



Patten's Greening 14 Minnesota 1 



Peerless 5 Orange 2 



Wealthy 20 Faribault 2 



Gideon 5 Martha 1 



Zuzoff 1 Virginia 2 



PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL ADDRESS, 1904.. 



CLARENCE WEDGE, PRES. 



Fellow Members, and Horticulturists of Minnesota: It is 

 my happy privilege again to greet you at the beginning of this, 

 another horticultural year. How the years slip by, and with 

 what endless variety of seasons, and new and interesting de- 

 velopments! We call the seasons by the old names, but they 

 are more truly new seasons, each having peculiar beauties and 

 interests, each one of a mighty procession that is bearing us 

 along with our small budget of hopes and cares, opportunities 

 and responsibilities. But how gently they deal with us who 

 work and wait on nature ! As I look over the countenances of 

 those I first met here some fourteen years ago not one seems a 

 year older, and we are sure that not an iota of interest in life 

 has been lost by even the oldest. Horticulture here in the north 

 surely proves a fountain of youth to those who abide with her. 

 Some have fallen by the way whom we may have called old in 

 years, but to the last they have kept that earnestness and en- 

 thusiasm that is the most certain mark of youth. 



I have addressed with you the "horticulturists of Minnesota," 

 realizing that although our society now numbers eighteen hun- 



