ANNUAL MEETING, I9O2. 487 



Another thing that struck me particularly was that the horticul- 

 turist gets down so close to Mother Earth. Some of us are so 

 cranky, he told us, that we get down a little below the earth. 



Now I shall take pleasure in introducing to you Air. F. E. Pease, 

 representing the Iowa State Horticultural Society. We shall be 

 very glad to see him and hear him, and I know we will all say when 

 he gets through that we hope he will come again. 



Mr. F. E. Pease (Iowa) : Members of the Minnesota Horticul- 

 tural Society, I am very glad to be here. My boyhood days were 

 spent in southeastern Minnesota, and I feel very friendly toward 

 Minnesota. Your program indicates a very successful session, and 

 I expect to take back with me a good many pointers to present at 

 the coming meeting of the Iowa Horticultural Society. I thank 

 you for your courtesy. (Applause.) 



The President : I want to thank Mr. Pease for his choice re- 

 marks, and I will now call on Prof. R. A. Emerson, of Nebraska. 

 He will not be new to many of us. 



Prof. R. A. Emerson (Nebraska) : Alembers of the Minnesota 

 Horticultural Society, I am very glad to be here. I came here to 

 see what Minnesota people have been doing in the Une of fruit 

 growing. We have heard a great deal about you down our way, es- 

 pecially in the reports of this society. I am glad to see the en- 

 thusiasm that prevails among the members of this society. When 

 we look at the map we find that Minnesota is pretty well north, 

 and it must get pretty cold, and I wondered what you grew. But i 

 have noticed many times that whenever difficult conditions are met 

 with in doing anything people are the more enthusiastic. I have at- 

 tended meetings south of us where they can grow peaches and 

 strawberries, and while they may be very successful they cannot be- 

 come as enthusiastic perhaps as you do. I am glad to see that. We 

 have in Nebraska the same peculiar conditions. We have just as 

 hard conditions as they have in some other places. The northern 

 line of Nebraska is considerably south of ^Minnesota. It gets cold 

 in Nebraska, too, although we are further south, and we are also 

 a good deal further west, and as we go west from the eastern line 

 of Nebraska we go higher and higher, and the western part is not 

 only cold on account of its height, but it is dry, and when w^e get 

 these two factors together we have many problems to work out. 

 I can only say that the horticultural society of Nebraska has started 

 on these things. We have divided the state into different sections 

 as to the fruits adapted to the various conditions. We are finding 

 the Northwestern Greening apple to be as well adapted to north- 

 western Nebraska as any winter apple that has been tried there. 

 In fact, it is the only winter apple in our orchards that is perfectly 

 hardy. I am very glad to be here, and I hope Minnesota will send 

 a delegate to our meeting, which will occur the second week in 

 January. (Applause.) 



The President : We all thank Professor Emerson very cordially 

 for his kind invitation to visit them. He spoke about Nebraska be- 

 ing dry as though that were something derogatory to it. but our 

 neighbors over here on the west are dry because they think it is 

 better — they vote '"dry." (Laughter.) 



