SECRETARY S ANNUAL REPORT. 1 9 



the president and secretary being also members ex-officio of the 

 board. Besides these officers and the treasurer there are as many 

 vice-presidents as there are congressional districts in the state ; the 

 special duties of the vice-presidents being to prepare reports, to 

 submit to the annual meeting, as to the fruit growing interests in 

 their districts and submit with these reports lists of fruit especially 

 adapted for growing in their respective districts. In this connection 

 the members who are specially interested in the workings of the 

 society should consult the constitution, which will be found printed 

 in full on page 3 of our annual report for the year 1900. 



While the work of the society is of course many sided, it has 

 two principal features which are : first, the collecting and dis- 

 tributing of correct information in regard to horticultural matters 

 in the state and, second, the conducting of experiments along various 

 horticultural lines. In a comparatively new state like this where it 

 is found necessary to create a pomology, the principal interest in 

 experimentation is almost entirely in connection with" fruit grow- 

 ing. There are now in the state two classes of experiment stations 

 from w^hich this society and, of course, the people at large in the 

 state are deriving benefit in this connection. There is, first and 

 foremost, the state experiment station at St. Anthony Park, under 

 charge of Prof. Samuel B. Green, who, by the way, is also at the 

 head of the experimental work carried on at the three state sub- 

 stations and also the trial stations directly under the management 

 of the horticultural society. The state central station at St. Anthony 

 Park includes a large number of acres in its work and is very com- 

 prehensive in its scope, pomology, ornamental horticulture, vege- 

 table gardening and forestry all receiving due attention. 



Three sub-stations are located, one in southwestern Minnesota 

 at Lynd, on Coteau farm, belonging to Prof. O. C. Gregg; one near 

 Crookston, in the Red River Valley, under charge of T. A. Hover- 

 stad ; and another at Grand Rapids, in the pine growing region of 

 northern Minnesota, under charge of Herman H. Chapman. At 

 each of these stations a proper amount of attention is being paid to 

 horticultural experimentation, and especially at Lynd results have 

 been very satisfactory ; the other sub-stations have been established 

 later, and the work has not reached as advanced a stage. Our • 

 society, through its executive board, has located nine experiment 

 stations, called trial stations, which are operated, without expense 

 to the society, by members of the organization who are appointed 

 by the executive board as superintendents. Many of these stations 

 have been in operation for a long time, and others from a more 



