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Mr. Frank Yahnke : I would like to have Mr. Wright give us 

 the address of the people selling those packages. 



Mr. R. A. Wright: I have only gone to one, that is the Coffin 

 Box "Co. They want to put up a box 10x12 because that does not 

 take so much lumber. The lo^xiij^-^ makes a very nice package 

 and comes at about the same price as the bushel basket. They will 

 stand firmly and can be packed closer. 



Mr. Geo. J. Kellogg (Wisconsin) : Why can't the lumber be 

 got just as cheap for the larger sized box? 



Mr. Wright : Well, they say the lumber cuts more to waste. 

 Either one makes a nice looking package, but the 10x12 is not quite 

 large enough. 



Mr. R. H. L. Jewett : In those packages the fruit can be forced 

 the same as in a barrel, and apples in them are much easier to sell 

 than if put in a bushel basket. 



The President : I will say to Brother Jewett that I think it 

 was Oliver Wendell Holmes who speaks of farmers putting up their 

 fruit so the specimens grow better as you go downward through 

 the box, and regards it as a sure sign of the coming of the millenium. 



RFPORT OF OBITUARY COMMITTEE. 



Since we last met death has taken the following members from 

 among us : 



Mr. H. M. Lyman, of Excelsior, died Jan. 4, 1902. Mr. Lyman's 

 record as a horticulturist has already been written to a large ex- 

 tent in the proceedings of this society in what he has done in the 

 production of seedlings of the Wealthy, bringing him forward into 

 the galaxy of painstaking originators of valuable fruits away back 

 in those dark years when hope seemed to have fled. His memory 

 we cherish, and his example will be followed. 



The late Mr. J. T. Furber, the date of whose death your com- 

 mittee is unable to state, was for many years a member of this so- 

 ciety, and though not an attendant of our meetings he was an 

 active and enthusiastic horticulturist. 



Mr. John L. Adams, of Glenwood, Minnesota, whose sudden 

 death occurred on the 15th of April last, was a life member of this 

 society and vice-president of his district. 



DEWAIN COOK, 

 F. L HARRIS, 

 A. D. LEACH, 



Committee. 



