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something superior to anything of the kind that },'our delegate had 

 ever seen. The similarity running through the exhibit was marvel- 

 ous, and if we had been called upon to judge the same we would 

 have been hopelessly swamped. 



Immediately after adjournment at the Wednesday evening ses- 

 sion, we boarded street cars for the Savery Hotel, by invitation of 

 Secretary Wesley Greene, to attend a banquet to be held in honor 

 of the members of the Iowa State Horticultural Society. There 

 were about two hundred guests present, and with a high-grade 

 band to furnish music it was a very enjoyable and entertaining- 

 occasion. 



To the best of our recollection we never received more kind, 

 considerate and gentlemanly treatment than we received at the 

 hands of the members of the State Horticultural Society of Town. 

 Long: mav thev wave ! 



ANNUAL MEETING, 1907, SOUTHERN MINNESOTA 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



O. M. PETERSON,, SEC'V, ALBERT LEA. 



The fourteenth annual meeting of the Southern Minnesota Hor- 

 ticultural Society was held, in the G. A. R. Hall, at Austin, Minn., 

 on January i6, 17 and 18. 



This meeting proved to be one of the most successful that our 

 society has ever held. The attendance during the day sessions av- 

 eraged from 50 to 100. The evening session was not as large as 

 could be desired, which was perhaps owin^>: to the many other en- 

 tertainments in the city that evening. 



The display of fruit was very fine, and a great number of peo- 

 ple were surprised to see such a splendid exhibition of Minnesora 

 grown apples so late in the season. Several hundred plates of fall 

 and winter apples were shown, and all were in fi.ne condition. Mr. 

 Clarence Wedge alone exhibited about forty-five varieties. A 

 large number of seedlings were also shown, of which the plate shown 

 by Mr. L. W. Prosser, of Le Roy, took first premr'um for best sour 

 winter seedling. 



The following is the program, and all the papers were presented 

 with but one exception : 



