482 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Prior to the noon adjournment the president appointed the fol- 

 lowing committees : 



Awards of Premiums. Seedling apples, Wyman Elliot, Clarence 

 Wedge and Prof. S. B. Green. 



Cold storage apples, C. E. Older. 



Apples, not cold storage, O. M. Lord. 



Grapes, R. S. Mackintosh. 



President's address, Alfred Terry, C. A. Sargent, D. M. 

 Mitchell. 



Obituary, L. R. Mover, W. L. Taylor, J. P. Andrews. 



Final Resolutions, T. E. Cashman, A. A. Bost, G. R. Widger. 



Credentials, Jno. Freeman, S. D. Richardson, W. P. Rogers. 



On motion of Mr. Elliot the meeting adjourned. 



TUESDAY AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The meeting was called to order at 2 :oo o'clock by the president. 



The afternoon program consisted of the following : 



"Succession of Crops in the Vegetable Garden." W. G. Beards- 

 ley, Minneapolis. (See index.) 



Discussion. 



"The Hotbed and its uses in Vegetable Gardening." Paul 

 Burtzlaff, Stillwater. C. B. Waddell, St. Louis Park. (See index.) 



Discussion. 



"Melons as a Field Crop." L. P. Lord, Owatonna. (See index.) 



Discussion. 



"Early Tomatoes in the Open Ground." T. T. Bacheller, Min- 

 neapolis. (See index.) 



Discussion. 



"Ginseng as a Garden Product." Howard Simmons, Howard 

 Lake. (See index.) 



Discussion. 



"Marketing the Vegetable Products." Frank Code, Minneap- 

 olis. 



Discussion. 



The president appointed the following committee on a standard 

 plum package: Clarence Wedge, A. K. Bush, Dewain Cook, Wy- 

 man Elliot, R. A. Wright. 



The President : I will introduce to you Dr. F. M. Powell, of the 

 Iowa state society, and I think he will consent to say a few words 

 to us. 



Dr. F. M. Powell, (Iowa) : Briefly I will say it gives me much 

 pleasure in having the opportunity to attend a meeting of your state 

 horticultural society. I have long known something of it. I have 

 heard something of the members from our state society, and I have 

 had the privilege of reading your reports, which have, been of great 

 interest to me. In various ways I have known something of your 

 work, and it has the reputation' of being the most progressive horti- 

 cultural society of which I have any knowledge, and what I have 

 seen today only confirms what I have heard about it. I am certainly 



