66 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



ANNUAL MEETING, 1901, NORTHEASTERN IOWA 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



JONATHAN FREEMAN, DELEGATE, AUSTIN. 



Iii company with J. C. Hawkins, president and delegate from 

 the So. Minn. Hort. Society, your delegate reached Rockford on 

 the evening of Dec. 16, finding several of northern Iowa's work- 

 ers in horticultural lines at the Beebe House. 



The evening was pleasantly and profitably spent in becoming 

 acquainted and conferring with several of the horticultural war 

 horses of the district. The following forenoon was improved by 

 making acquaintances in the hotel lobby, and finally gathering at 

 the cosy Baptist church building, the place of meeting of the so- 

 ciety, where some time was utilized in further conference, arrang- 

 ing and examining exhibits. 



The efficient secretary, C. H. True, was promptly on hand, 

 making all possible efforts necessary for a successful meeting. 

 His exhibit was fine and instructive, consisting of home dried 

 apples, several varieties of nuts, and a splendid showing of tree 

 sections, including twenty apple varieties, six plums and thirty 

 native woods. It must have required much labor and care. It 

 was very interesting to both the old amateur and the youth. I 

 believe the exhibit was handed over to the Rockford high school. 



The number of fruit exhibits was surprisingly small, but 

 the few specimens were good. The duties of the fruit committee 

 were not onerous. 



The meeting of the society properly opened Tuesday afternoon, 

 with President Reeves in the chair. 



The reports of the district directors, as a whole, were in the 

 same line, and largely a duplicate, in experience and observation, 

 of those of our own vice-presidents in the southeastern portions 

 of the state. 



Within the limits required, it will be impossible to give a full 

 report of papers and discussions, unless it be dry as dust; hence 

 I will only note a few salient points as they may appear to the 

 writer. 



The greeting and response by Dr. L. Brown and W. H. Guil- 

 ford were happy and permeated with good will and good sense. 



Rev. C. Marshall, who, as age is slowly creeping forward, is 

 giving less time to the ministry and more to horticulture, gave a 

 pleasing and polished address, full of the "Perplexities of a Be- 

 ginner." 



The president, Elmer Reeves, of Waverly, in his annual address, 

 which was concise, definite and forcible, referred to many requi- 



