6 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Ill looking over the various sessions of the society, the one 

 which seems to the writer to have been of the largest interest to 

 these in attendance was the session Friday forenoon, covering the 

 subject of "Commercial Orcharding." An observer has stated, and 

 I believe with truth, that the attendance on that occasion was the 

 best representative horticultural audience ever gathered at a sim- 

 ilar meeting in our state. 



The program, with the exception of a few of the shorter re- 

 ports, was fully completed, and with a single exception every as- 

 signment on the program was ready in its place. The meeting 

 closed with a feeling that the work of the session was most happily 

 finished. The last hour was occupied with short speeches, two- 

 minute talks, songs and recitals of personal experiences and anec- 

 dotes, winding up with "Auld Lang Syne," in which the large au- 

 dience joined, taking hold of hands and singing together in a hearty 

 chorus. So closed the thirty-fifth session of our society. 



The banquet should receive special mention, since, as usual, it 

 stands near the head of the entertaining features of the meeting. 

 The program was as follows: 



Toastmaster, Pres. W. W. Pendergast. 



1. Grace. Rev. T. E. Archer, Minneapolis. 



2. Brothers in affliction — the legal luminary and the tree pedlar. 



A. B. Choate, Minneapolis-. 



3. "Truth crushed to earth will rise again." 



Clarence Wedge, Albert Lea. 



4. /h search of truth — Was the garden of Eden really located in Minnesota? 



Prof. Wm. Robertson, St. Anthony Park. 



5. Song, Roy Underwood. 



6. 'Tis better to be sinned against than sinful — The commission merchant a 



propitiation for the sins of many. 



Levi Longfellow, Minneapolis. 



The livicst thing on record — A Minnesota spring from the nurseryman's 

 standpoint. J. P. Andrews, Faribault. 



The Minnesota State Horticultural Society— We toast ourselves with 

 becoming modesty. Frank Yahnke, Winona. 



The Gopher and Badger lie down together— on occasion. 



A. J. Philips, West Salem, Wis. 



10. Song. J- M. Underwood, Lake City. 



11. The Men's Auxiliary — what we are coming to. 



G. F. Braton, Minneapolis. 



12. Things horticultural and otherwise in countries not our own. 



Rev. T. E. Archer, Minneapolis. 



13. "In Memoriam"—a finger board pointing the way to duties unperformed. 



Oliver Gibbs, Prescott, Wis. 



The speeches being impromptu and of a character especially en- 

 tertaining rather than horticultural, are not reproduced in our pub- 

 lication. An orchestra furnished suitable music. 



That we had a good time is the testimony of every one who had 

 an opportunity to know anything about it. 



