l6 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



We are offered a cordial welcome by Minneapolis as usual, and 

 an especially generous and hearty greeting- by two of her liberal and 

 warm hearted citizens, for all of which we entertain feelings of the 

 deepest gratitude. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



Your committee on the president's address, finding no specific 

 recommendations as to items of business for the meeting, can only 

 report recommending a careful reading of the many excellent sug- 

 gestions made in the address as to our duties as horticulturists in 

 home work as well as in the meetings of this and local societies. 



OLIVER GIBBS, 

 D. T. WHEATON, 

 JONATHAN FREEMAN, 



Committee. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF EXECUTIVE BOARD, 1902. 



WVMAN ELLIOT, CHAIRMAN. 



The committee have met twice during the past year. The busi- 

 ness of the society has been very efficiently managed through the 

 office of the secretary by correspondence with members of the board. 



The large increase of membership will require an increase in 

 the number of our printed reports and of the monthly "Horticul- 

 turist." Already we are very near the limit of distribution. If 

 we push our work as the exigencies of the times demand we should 

 have an increase of at least i,ooo copies of our reports and an issue 

 of 2,000 of the monthly, but with the present appropriation 

 from the state this cannot be done under the present law. I am 

 confident if a cash appropriation was placed under the control of 

 the executive board we could supply an ample amount of printed 

 matter at greatly reduced rates from what it is costing the state 

 under the present arrangement. 



You will see by the report of our secretary that the membership 

 is increasing very rapidly — last year 1,000, this year nearly 1,250, 

 an increase of nearly one-quarter. If we increase our membership 

 only in the same proportion the next year we shall have over fifteen 

 hundred members. 



From present indications the interest in horticulture is increas- 

 ing very rapidly, and with the great demand for horticultural in- 

 formation at our farmers' institutes measures should be adopted 

 to provide a suitable person therewith to give the people proper 

 instruction and to distribute printed horticultural literature that 



