26 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



ANNUAL REPORT, 1906, EXECUTIVE BOARD. 



WYMAN ELLIOT, CHAIRMAN, MINNEAPOLIS. 



The duties of the executive board the past year have not been 

 very arduous. 



December 8th, 1905, it was decided, ac a meeting of the board, 

 tc increase the salary of the stenographer from ten to twelve and a 

 half cents per folio. 



The books of the secretary and treasurer were examined by 

 ]\Ir. J. A. Vye and found correct, and his report ordered filed 



It was decided to raise the rates for advertising space in the 

 Horticulturist thirty-three percent, and we think, on account of 

 extended circulation and increasing demand for space, we should 

 make a still further raise of, at least twenty-five percent. 



It was decided that the apple seed secured from S. H. Kenney, 

 from apples grown on Malinda top-worked on Duchess, should 

 be turned over to Prof. S. B. Green for growing seedling trees 

 on the experiment farm, to be used as preirJums for securing new 

 members, renewals of old members, etc. 



It was also decided to ofifer additional prizes to encourage the 

 growing of new seedling apples. In the February Horticulturist 

 of 1906 was issued a supplement giving a detailed description of 

 the new prizes for seedling apples, in which five hundred dollars 

 was offered by the Minnesota State Horticultural Society. This 

 supplement can be procured, by any one interested m seedling apple 

 growing, by addressing A. W. Latham, Secretary, 207 Kasota Block, 

 Minneapolis, Minnesota. 



Your executive board met at the secretary's office June 25th, 

 audited the books of the secretary and treasurer from December 

 4th to June 25th, marked them examined and approved, and trans- 

 acted such other business as needed attention at that time. 



I desire to make mention of a trip to the Owatonna Orchard 

 Experiment Station, in company with Secretary Latham and 

 Prof. S. B. Green. We examined the work there, so ably con- 

 ducted under the supervision of the superintendent, Thos. E. 

 Cashman. We were pleased to note the great improvement in 

 methods pursued to develop better samples of fruit. The sta- 

 tion is far too small to give each tree proper space for showing 

 to best advantage its possibilities for im.provement. I wish, at 

 this time to add a word of praise for the fine collection of seed- 

 ling apples exhibited by the superintendent of this station at 

 our last state fair ; it comprised over cue htmdred distinct va- 



