78 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
WEDNESDAY EVENING SESSION. 
Program for this session will include reading of first and second prize essays, and will be 
arranged by the ladies of Albert Lea. 
Programs will be distributed at commencement of session, 
THURSDAY MORNING SESSION, 9:30. 
Report of committee on fruit. Report of committee on seedlings.—Two minute papers. 
Take Time to Notice the Beautiful in Nature.—Miss L. Freeman, Austin. 
Horticultural Adversity of Last Winter.—J. C. Hawkins, Austin. 
Secretary and Treasurer’s Report. 
Election of Officers. 
THURSDAY AFTERNOON SESSION, 1:30. 
Which Varieties Have Stood the Past Winter the Best?—J. S. Harris, La Crescent. 
A Good Way to Keep Apples in a Common Cellar.—Geo. Andrus, Chatfield. 
Good Varieties of Small Fruit for the Farmer.—E. F. Peck, Austin. 
Horticultural Education in our Common Schools.—J. Freeman, Austin. 
PREMIUMS FOR ESSAYS. 
Premiums are offered as follows for essays by our young people in Minnesota and two 
northern tiers of counties in Iowa. Any girlor boy under eighteen years of age in said 
territory can compete. Essays not to exceed 200 words each, and to be in the hands of 
Clarence Wedge, Albert Lea, on or before February 12. Competition limited to one topic. 
Toric 1.—Where and Why I would Plant Evergreens. 
First premium. $5.00; Second, $3.00; Third, $2.00; payable in nursery stock. 
Toric 2.—Raising Small Fruit for the Home. 
Premiums same as above. 
_ Secretary's ( Porner. 
PREMIUMS ON HORTICULTURE AT THE NEXT STATE FAiR.—This premium 
list is now under consideration, and suggestions in regard thereto will be gladly 
received. They may be addressed to this office or to Mr. J. M. Underwood, 
Lake City— at once to be in season. 
CLARENCE WEDGE AGAIN AN EpDITOR.—We note that Mr. Wedge is to take 
charge of the ‘‘ Orchard and Garden’”’ department of ‘* The Farmer,’’ the one 
of the three Minnesota agricultural papers which is published in St. Paul. 
He is cut out for this kind of work, and his assistance will be of material value 
to the journal and its readers. 
ANNUAL MEETING, SOUTHERN MINNESOTA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.— 
The date for the regular meeting of this vigorous off-shoot of the state society 
is fixed for February 14 and 15, and the place of gathering is to be Albert Lea. 
The program is at hand and will be found elsewhere in this number. It con- 
tains as an interesting innovation offers of premiums of $5.00, $3.00 and $2.00, 
in nursery stock, for essays on ‘‘ Why and Where I would Plant Evergreens,”’ 
and the same premiums on “ Raising Small Fruits for the Home.’ The prize 
essays will probably be published in the Horticulturist. Can you not attend 
this meeting? 
ANNUAL MEETING, WISCONSIN STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The 
program for this annual gathering is received. The session convenes at Madi- 
son February 6, 7 and 8, on the same week when all other Wis. state societies 
hold their sessions in the same town. It should bea lively week. The pro- 
gram touches horticulture at most points and presages an interesting occasion. 
We note the names of a number of Minnesotans thereon, viz.: Hon. S. M. 
