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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



WISCONSIN STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, AN- 

 NUAL MEETING, 1905. 



ROY UNDERWOOD, DELEGATE, LAKE CITY. 



In many respects the 1905 convention of the society was con- 

 ceded by its members to be one of the most successful in its history. 

 Covering four days, Feb. 7, 8, 9 and 10, every session was well 

 attended, and great enthusiasm was manifested. The convention 

 hall was especially well adapted to the needs of the society, with a 

 fine exhibit room for fruit on the second floor. There were over 

 600 plates on exhibition, including many of the northern varieties 

 found in our Minnesota meetings, and also a great many of the 

 older eastern varieties grown in the Lake Michigan district. Your 

 delegate attended all of the sessions, and the program was of great 

 interest from beginning to end. An average of between seventy-five 



side view of Horticultural Hall, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. 



and 100 were in attendance at each session, the evening sessions in 

 every case filling the hall to the limits. The first evening a male 

 quartet sang between the papers ; the second evening it was a man- 

 dolin club, and the third evening a full string orchestra. Music 

 was thus a pleasing and dominant feature. At this point I wish 

 especially to mark the cordial hospitality evidenced by all the Wis- 

 consin people. All of the foreign delegates were greeted warmly 

 and made to feel at home from the very beginning. The banquet, 

 although the first in the society's history, was one of the happiest 

 and best managed affairs the writer has attended ; the Madison peo- 

 ple know how to do these things right — they lay it on just thick 

 enous:h to suit all tastes. 



