ANNUAL MEETING, I9O5, SOUTJIERN MINNESOTA HORT. SOC. II7 



Wednesday, i :30 p. in. Call to order by President O. W. Moore ; 

 report of delegates to other societies ; report of Fruit and Seedlings 

 Committees ; report of the secretary ; Minnesota's Advance in Hor- 

 ticulture and its Causes, by A. J. Philips, West Salem, Wis. ; GroAv- 

 ing Berries for Profit, H. F. Hanson, Albert Lea. 



Evening Session. Address of Welcome, by the mayor of Spring 

 Valley ; response by J. C. Hawkins, Austin ; president's annual ad- 

 dress ; remarks by visiting horticulturists ; The Lowland Raspberry 

 Apple, Clarence Wedge, Albert Lea. 



Thursday Forenoon. Planting and Mulching the Strawberry 

 Bed, R. G. Livingston, Spring Valley; The Honesty of the Nur- 

 seryman and the Tree Agent and the Product of the Trees Sold, 

 J. A. Jensen, Rose Creek; The Apple, P. Clausen, Albert Lea; 

 Planting and Care of the Asparagus Bed, O. W. Moore. 



Thursday Afternoon, Spraying that Pays, E. M. Reeves, Wa- 

 verly, la. ; Spraying, O. W. Moore, Spring Valley ; The Apple Or- 

 chard — Distances in Planting and Care of the Trees, S. D. Richard- 

 son, Winnebago City ; Some Advice tO' Farmers on Planting the 

 Home Grounds, by A. E. Bentz, Cresco, la. 



Thursday Evening. Seedling Apples of Wisconsin and Minne- 

 sota — A Talk, with illustrations, A. J, Philips, West Salem, Wis. ; 

 The Future of the Southern Minnesota Horticultural Society. A 

 discussion opened by J. C. Hawkins, Austin. 



Friday Forenoon. "Horticultural Reminiscences along the Pa- 

 cific Coast, or as I Saw It on the Fly," L. W. Allen, Spring Valley ; 

 Some Pointers on Growing Small Fruits, C. F. Gardner, Osage, 

 Iowa ; Election of Officers. 



A question which received its share of attention was the dis- 

 tance in planting oi apple trees, about which there always are 

 many opinions. The prevaiHng idea was that fruit trees are gen- 

 erally planted too close, A good many favored planting close — 

 about one rod each way — and then removing every other row later. 



The subject of spraying received considerable attention, and 

 the remarkable fact was brought out that the plum curculio is in- 

 clined to work more injury to the apple than to the plum, even 

 where a plum and apple orchard are adjoining one another, Mr. 

 Reeves, of Waverly, in his paper, contended that a considerable 

 number of curculios could be killed by poison. 



Mr. Philips, of Wisconsin, gave a very interesting talk on Seed- 

 ling Apples of Wisconsin and Minnesota, and Mr. Patten, of Iowa, 

 spoke of some of their later productions of his state. 



Mr. Michener, of Fillmore county, who has a ten-acre orchard 

 and who has harvested a good crop the past season, gave a very in- 

 teresting talk on his experience in shipping. He had sold some 

 1,100 barrels this season and said that if all his orchard had been 

 Duchess and Wealthy trees the yield would have been doubled. 

 Like a good many other men with experience Mr. Michener believes 



