Il8 :\IINNESOTA STATl': HORTICULTURAL SOCIl£TY. 



Both J\lr. Alendcnhall and his wife were interested in all the philan- 

 thropic work in the city. 



For many years Mr. Aiendenhall was the leadiii_<:( florist in the 

 northwest and until advancing years and failins^ health made it nec- 

 essary for him to relinquish his large business cares to others. Com- 

 mencing with a little lean-to of glass for his ])ersonal pleasure, more 

 than thirty years ago. he soon added to this, till his greenhouses 

 covered nearly a whole city block and his business connected there- 

 with embraced the whole northwest. 



Though not a charter member of this society. Mr. ]Mendenhall 

 early allied himself with the organization, his name appearing on 

 the membership roll first in the year 1871 and continuing thereon 

 as an annual member until ten years later, when in consideration of 

 his distinguished services to the association he was made an honor- 

 ary life member. During that period and for a number of years-there- 

 after he was one of the most regular in service and most efficient 

 members of the society. In 1871 he was elected president, succeed- 

 ing himself in that office the following year. In 1884 his name ap- 

 pears as a member of the executive board, and for a number of 

 years Mr. Mendenhall was the official entomologist of the society, 

 the science of entomology being one in which he took a large interest. 

 Though for the past twenty years Mr. Mendenhall had been very ir- 

 regular in his attendance at the meetings of our organization, he 

 had always stood ready to render any assistance within his power 

 to aid the society in its work, and we have counted upon his steady 

 loyalty in every emergenc}'. The following words which he noted 

 in his last annual report to the secretary, which life members make 

 in keeping in touch with the society, indicates that his interest con- 

 tinued unabated to the end, this being written in November, 1905. 

 "1 bespeak continued prosperity for the horticultural society. A 

 nobler band was never organized, and I am so glad to know that the 

 society is forging to the front. I revere the names of those who 

 have gone before and are now reaping golden apples from silver 

 trees." The portrait of Mr. Mendenhall used herewith is the same 

 one which appeared in our periodical some years since, but it shows 

 him at the time of life when he was doing his largest service for 

 the organization through active work. An examination of the rec- 

 ords of the society for the twenty years or more especially referred 

 to herein will show that he was a large contributor to its literature, 

 mainly along the lines of his favorite study, entomology. 



