JOURNAL OF 



Minnesota State Horticultural Society, 



DECEMBER 4-6, 1906. 



TUESDAY MORNING SESSION. 



Following an organ prelude, the fortieth annual meeting cf the 

 Minnesota State Horticultural Society was called to order by its 

 president, Mr. Clarence Wedge, of Albert Lea, in the auditorium 

 of the First Unitarian Church, in Minneapolis, at 9:45 o'clock of tlie 

 morning of December the fourth. 



Mr. Trafiford N. Jayne then entertained the audience with a 

 vocal selection. 



The President : We are fortunate in having with us during this 

 meeting one who was a citizen of our state years before our society 

 was organized. Indeed, I believe at the very birth of our state he 

 was doing missionary work within its boundaries, and has ever 

 since that time been interested in the lines of work we are following. 

 He is now living in a sister state whose conditions are very similar 

 to those obtaining in our state, and he is therefore in a position to 

 sympathize very fully in all of our efforts and in all of our trials 

 and disappointments and also in all of our victories, and it is a great 

 pleasure that we have him here with us this morning. We will 

 now unite with him in asking the divine benediction upon this 

 meeting. 



Rev. C. S. Harrison, of York, Neb., then offered the invocation. 



The President : We will now take up the regular order of the 

 program, and the first number is the customary address by the pres- 

 ident which, with your permission, I will now present. 



The "President's Annual Address" was then delivered by Mr. 

 Clarence Wedge, of Albert Lea. (See index.) 



Mr. Wyman Elliot : There are a number of recommendations 

 in that address, and I think it would be well to refer it to a com- 

 mittee, and I will make a motion to that effect, that it be referred 

 to a committee to be appointed by the chair. 



The motion was duly seconded and, being put to a vote, pre- 

 vailed unanimously. 



The President : The chair will appoint the committee later in 

 the meeting. The next number on our program is an address by 

 Rev. C. S. Harrison, of York. Neb., who will speak upon the topic 

 of the unused capital of farmers and gardeners. 



