COMMITTEE ON PRESIDENTS ADDRESS. 1 3 



REPORTOFCOMMITTEE ON PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



We, your committee, congratulate this society on the very able 

 address of our president and most heartily endorse the sentiments 

 expressed therein, especially that portion of it which refers to the 

 students of our State Agricultural College, with whom we have 

 mutual interests which can be better furthered by co-operation. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



Alfred Terry, 



C. A. Sargent, 



D. M. Mitchell. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF EXECUTIVE BOARD, 1901. 



WYMAN ELLIOT, CHAIRMAN, MINNEAPOLIS. 



We have had a quiet, successful year, with very marked im- 

 provement in membership, which at the present time numbers 

 over one thousand. This has been accomplished only by the per- 

 sistent effort of our friends and the zealous work of our secretary. 



We have had under discussion the subject of acquiring the 

 Peter M. Gideon farm and orchards for an experiment station for 

 pomology, but there is now no immediate probability of accom- 

 plishing this object, and unless some of our rich friends are inter- 

 ested we may never attain to its possession. 



The Peter M. Gideon Memorial Fund has been considered, as 

 recommended at our last annual meeting, and a committee con- 

 sisting of Messrs. Green, Elliot and Latham has been appointed by 

 the executive board to devise some practical plan for raising the 

 necessary means for that purpose. That committee has prepared a 

 prospectus, of which they are having printed five thousand, which 

 are being sent to all lovers of horticulture as far as known. We 

 have had great difficulty in procuring a good type of the Wealthy 

 apple suitable for an electrotype worthy a place in the. proposed 

 memorial volume, that is to be sent out to contributors to this fund. 



The ranks of your executive board have been broken by the death 

 of our brother and co-worker, John S. Harris, which is a great loss 

 to our society and the cause of horticulture. Six members of our 

 society, Messrs. Underwood, Lord, Widmoyer, Kimball, Latham 

 and Elliot, attended his funeral. All felt at that time most keenly 

 his taking away from so useful a field of w r ork. 



The death of Mr. Harris has necessitated the appointment of a 

 new member on the executive board, and Hon. A. K. Bush has 

 been selected to fill the unexpired term of Brother Harris. 



Frank I. Harris was appointed superintendent of his father's 

 trial station, and S. B. Green, O. M. Lord and F. W. Kimball the 

 committee on seedlings. 



