THE MINNESOTA 



HORTICULTURIST. 



VOL. 30. SEPTEMBER, 1902. No. 9 



]Y[eii}orial ^T * 11 *. 



(Annual Meeting, Dec. 1901.) 



IN MEMORIAM.' JOHN S. HARRIS, WM. MACKINTOSH, 

 JUDSON N. CROSS, PROF. OTTO LUGGER. 



The President : The exercises of this hour will awaken a train 

 of sad reflections in the minds of all the members of this society. 

 We were all or nearly all acquainted with these men, earnest work- 

 ers in the horticultural society, these men who have left us during 

 the year. Still we are glad to render this last sad tribute. We 

 feel it is a duty incumbent upon us, and it is something we are glad 

 to do. 



The exercises were opened with a funeral march rendered on 

 the piano by Prof. Rudolph. 



The President : I will call upon Prof. Green to speak upon the 

 characters of the various members of the society that have passed 

 away during the year, and the loss to the society and the loss to the 

 state. 



Prof. Samuel B. Green : Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen 

 of the Horticultural Society : These four names whose lives are the 

 special subject of this hour are very dear to me. I have been 

 severely stricken during the past year in that I have lost four good 

 friends. They were all high minded men, they were all strong 

 men. They were all men of broad character, working for the up- 

 building of their fellowmen. They are all men of whom it can be 

 said, the world is better because they have lived in it. 



Mr. Owen, I understand, is to speak especially of the work of 

 Mr. Harris, and Judge Hicks of the life of Capt. Cross. I wish, 

 however, to refer to these myself. 



Mr. Harris was a very dear friend of mine, and I have missed 

 him in so many ways since he left us. At this meeting and at the 

 summer meeting we have all missed him, his genial, kind ways, 

 his helpful ways, and he had a place in Minnesota horticulture 

 that it seems as though we had no one else to fit into. He was 

 eminent as a pomologist, he had a national reputation ; he was 

 known as one of the best authorities on pomology in the north- 

 western states. He was looked upon as a very valuable man as 

 judge by the different societies and was sent for on such occasions. 

 His" impartiality was a fine trait. When he had to say unkind 

 things, or had to say the truth, which was a little rough sometimes, 



