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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



APPLES, 



ARTICLE. EXHIBITOR. PRE?I. AMT. 



Collection of seedlings. .D. F. Akin, Farmington Special. $3. 00 



(Crop of 1898, kept in cellar). 



Wyman Elliot, Judge. 



FLOWERS. 



Swedish Black roses D. P. DeLamater, Edina Mills. .First 



Bouquet mixed flowers. .H. W. Sherman, Excelsior First 



Beautyof Waltham, rose.Jewell Nurs. Co , Lake City First 



Mabel Morrison, 

 Anne de Diesbacb, 

 Magna Charta, 

 Queen of Prairie, 

 Princess Adelaide, 

 Paul Neyron, 

 Victor Verdier, 

 La France, 

 Genl. Jac, 

 Crested Moss, 

 Fisher Holmes, 

 Collection of roses. 



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THE NEW HORTICULTURAL BUILDING AND WHA IT 



REPRESENTS. 



CLARENCE WEDGE, ALBERT LEA. 



(Address delivered at Summer Meeting, 1899.) 



Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of the Minnesota State Hor- 

 ticultural Society: At the end of this, our annual summer pilgrim- 

 age, we are met today to pay our vowb amid these shrines and 

 grounds devoted to the service of Ceres and Pomona. Since last we 

 met we have watched through the long reign of cold and ice and 

 observed with keen solicitude the trial of our works by the biting 

 breath of old Boreas. Our eyes have once again beheld those 

 resurrection days of nature which are a prophesy and an earnest 

 of the greater day to come. And again with hope and joyfuf 

 expectation we have begun our work among the fields, orchards 

 and gardens, sowing the good seed in the cool, moist ground, plant- 

 ing the tender herb and fruitful tree, and practising those arts that 

 "that do mend nature." As hand grasps hand today, and as we look 

 into one another's faces and think upon the blessings strewn along 

 the devious paths that have brought us to this place, we would not, 

 we can not, restrain a thought of hearty gratitiide to Him whose 

 laws we study, whose fields we till and in whose groves we 

 worship. 



As horticulturists, as agriculturists and as fellow citizens, we 

 seem, at this very time and place, to have reached an eminence of 

 prosperity, a vantage ground of effort, that while it makes us glad 



