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The President : Captain Reed will now give us a very brief re- 

 port of the Glencoe trial station. (See index.) 



The President : We will now hear from the Windom trial sta- 

 tion, which is in charge of Mr. Cook. (See index.) 



Discussion. 



The President : I wish to introduce Prof. Max Pfaender, who 

 will read a paper on the crossing of fruit flowers. We must get 

 this paper in this morning's program, because it is prefatory to the 

 lesson he is going to give us this afternoon. I consider this one of 

 the rich features of our gathering this winter, that we can have 

 some one here to instruct us and to make it clear and plain to us how 

 we may do hand-pollenization. Although it comes on the first thing- 

 this afternoon, I hope Prof. Pfaender will have a full audience of 

 those interested in this important phase of horticulture. I notice 

 by those who come to me and ask information regarding the Plant 

 Breeders' Association that there are an unusually large number of 

 our members who are interested in making hand-crossings. I do 

 not know how much time Prof. Pfaender will require, but it may be 

 we shall have time to have the other two papers read this morning. 

 If not, we will bring them up this afternoon. 



Prof. Max Pfaender. of St. Anthony Park, then presented a 

 paper upon the subject of "Crossing Fruit Flowers." (See index.) 



The President : We have an abundance of time to take up our 

 other numbers, and we will now take up Mr. Kenney's paper, who 

 will give us some orchard notes. 



Mr. Seth H. Kenney, of Waterville, then presented a few 

 "Orchard Notes.'' (See index.) 



Discussion. 



The President : I am sorry to stop the proceedings at this 

 time, but I am sure Mr. Kenney will be glad to answer any questions 

 personally. It would seem that Mr. Kenney had done a creditable 

 life work in the building up of the sorghum industry, in which he 

 has been engaged for years, but he has also done good work in 

 horticulture, and it is interesting to listen to his relation of the 

 valuable experiments which he has made and is making. 



On motion of Mr. Brackett the meeting adjourned. 



WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The meeting was called to order promptly at two o'clock by the 

 president. 



The President : The first thing this afternoon is the report of 

 the committee on fruit list. Prof. Green, the chairman of that 

 committee, will make that report. 



Prof. S. B. Green then submitted the "Report of the Committee 

 on Fruit List." (See index.) 



On motion of Prof. Green the report of the committee was 

 adopted as read. 



On motion of Mr. Cook the meeting adjourned. 



