ANNUAL REPORT, I9O4, EXECUTIVE BOARD. 1 7 



ANNUAL REPORT, EXECUTIVE BOARD, 1904. 



WYMAN ELLIOT, CHAIRMAN. 



The executive board have been in session but twice during 

 the year. The management of our horticultural affairs is so ad- 

 mirably conducted by our secretary that they require but little 

 attention from the executive board. All questions of great im- 

 portance are referred to the two resident members, Green and El- 

 liot, and if requiring the sanction of all the members the matter 

 under consideration is decided by means of correspondence or 

 long distance telephone, thus saving time and expense in calling 

 the members together during the periods intervening between 

 our semi-annual meetings. The executive board usually finds no 

 necessity for a meeting of the full board oftener than two or 

 three times each year, and, to avoid expense, each member is 

 notified by the secretary to meet at his office the evening before 

 the opening of our winter meeting and again on the day of ad- 

 journment, thereby relieving a full quorum of the board from 

 further duty till the summer meeting of the society in June. 



Mr, J. A. Vye, the bookkeeper of the central experiment sta- 

 tion, has examined the books of the secretary from June 26fch, 

 1903, to June 23rd, 1904, and found them correct. The executive 

 committee have also examined the books of the secretary and 

 treasurer for the past year, checked up the bills and vouchers 

 and found them correct. 



We have at the end of 1904 eighteen hundred members, and 

 with the present method of distributing our reports have not 

 enough left to make the proper exchanges with other horticul- 

 tural societies and experiment stations ; therefore the board de- 

 cided to apply to our next legislature for an increased appro- 

 priation that we may print two thousand copies more than are 

 printed at the present time. With this increased number, we 

 should have enough to supply our increasing membership and 

 lay aside a sufficient number for future life members. 



The executive board desires at this time to thank the mem- 

 bers of our society who have so freely contributed fruits from 

 their orchards and gardens for the Minnesota Fruit Exhibit at 

 the St. Louis Louisiana Exposition, and those who have had 

 charge of their installation and management, as well as our press 

 for the many expressions of praise and commendation so gener- 

 ously published. 



