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the State Horticultural Society, and wftat impresses me more than 

 anything else is what this society has done, I was impressed with 

 the wonderful exhibit of fruit you made this year. You have been 

 gathering first premiums and prizes at home and abroad. This 

 society has done so much to improve conditions all over the state, 

 and has done so much to encourage fruit growing that the enthu- 

 siasm permeates every corner of the state, and when you go home 

 you will have no trouble to add to the membership and increase the 

 enthusiasm, and that is the thought that should be before the 

 society. 



Mr. C. M. Loring, Minneapolis : Mr. President and Gentlemen : 

 I became a member of this society in 1868. At that time we used 

 to display a few plates of crab apples, and from that small beginning 

 has developed this beautiful and magnificent display we see here 

 today, one of the finest sights I ever saw in my life. I saw a lady 

 here yesterday who is familiar with the apples of Maine. She did 

 not see any Greenings or Baldwins. I said those apples were all 

 grown here, they were natives of Minnesota. I doubt whether 

 there is any more beautiful display than Vv^e can see here. I want 

 to add one word as a plea. I want to plead with those who live 

 in the country to do something toward planting trees along the 

 roadside. There were several suggestions made here yesterday, 

 and I want to make one or two more. One gentleman wanted to 

 plant birch trees, and our worthy president wanted to plant pine 

 trees. When you can go all over Europe and all over the United 

 States and see the most beautiful avenues in the world and know 

 they are planted with trees that are a hundred or two hundred 

 years old, why do you wish to plant such short lived and ungainly 

 looking trees as some that have been mentioned? I want to make 

 this plea to plant maple or elm or hackberry trees, something that 

 will remain when we are gone and that our children and grand- 

 children may enjoy. (Applause.) 



Mr. Wyman Elliot : Mr. President and Brother and Sister 

 Horticulturists : It gives me great pleasure to have the privilege of 

 making the closing speech of this delightful meeting. The thirty- 

 eighth annual m.eeting is about drawing to a close, and I do not 

 know how to express my gratitude at the pleasure it has given me 

 to meet so many of the old friends and greet them once more. I 

 started in this society as a charter member thirty-eight years ago, 

 and I have not let go one bit of the enthusiasm for the success of 

 horticulture in the northwest during all that time. I have been in 

 the harness continuously, and I expect to remain in it as long as 1 

 live. I have been frequently opportuned to go to this state or to 

 that state, to Oregon, Washington or California, where the condi- 

 tions are more favorable perhaps, but I tell my friends, "No, I came 

 to Minnesota in 1854, and I expect to live and to die here," and I 

 hope and trust that the younger members, when we pass oflf the 

 scene, will take up this work and carry it along in the same spirit 

 .with which their predecessors have carried it on. It has been a 

 labor of love with many of us. We have put in a great "-^ny hours 



