10 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



grams of the various sessions was carried out and completed be- 

 fore the adjournment of the session. It was a very full program, 

 '■'as full as an egg," as one member noted, and if allowed to get be- 

 hind could never have picked up. 



An extraordinary attendance greeted the first session, nearly 

 every seat in the auditorium being occupied, a fact that was excep- 

 tionally gratifying to the management and insured a most auspicious 

 opening. The attendance was well maintained throughout the va- 

 rious sessions with an interest in all the proceedings fully in propor- 

 Jtion to the number present. 



The newspaper reporters have a practice of taking the program 

 and writing up an account of the meeting without having been pres- 

 ent ; the interested reader may safely prepare such a report of this 

 meeting for himself, it was so nearly in accord in all its details with 

 the program. Special mention might be made of a few items of 

 unusual interest, but to avoid the charge of discrimination where 

 almost every item was worthy of special note, reference will be made 

 only to the numbers presented by those coming for that purpose from 

 without the state. 



In the first session of the meeting the address by Rev. C. S. 

 Harrison, of York, Nebraska, on the "Farmer's and Gardener's 

 Unused Capital" was a brilliant setting forth of the opportunities 

 open to every owner of a bit of ground and a home, an eloquent plea 

 that these opportunities should not be lost. This address as well as 

 all the articles later referred to, — and, indeed, all others presented 

 at the meeting — will appear in full in some number of our monthly 

 during the year. 



Mr. Geo. J. Kellogg, the veteran strawberry grower of Wis- 

 consin, in the same session gave us the benefit of his experience 

 of over one-half a century in the strawberry field, words of wis- 

 dom from the standpoint of years and well worth heeding. 



Mr. E. M. Sherman, of Charles City, Iowa, gave an address on 

 "Hardy Ornamental Trees and Shrubs," a very full description of 

 sorts most worthy of cultivation in this latitude, and something about 

 methods of propagation, this subject having been presented in the 

 nurserymen's session. 



Mr. Wm. G. Scott, of \\'innipeg, not bemg able to attend the 

 meeting, sent us in his contribution of "Flowers in Manitoba," 

 which should be carefully read by all the flower lovers among our 

 readers. 



Secretary C. H. True, of the Northeastern Iowa society, has 

 evidently had much experience in spraying and gave us the bene- 

 fit of this in the Thursday morning's session in a sensible paper 



