OFFICERS IN 1904. 5 



NOMENCLATURE. 



Prof. N. E. Hansen Brookings, S. D. 



Prof. Samuel B. Green St. Anthony Park 



Geo. W. Strand Taylor's Falls 



LEGISLATURE. 



J. M. Underwood Lake City 



Wyman Elliot Minneapolis 



A. K. Bush Dover 



Robert Jamison Minneapolis 



Prof. W. M. Hays St. Anthony Park 



A. W. Latham Minneapolis 



PUBLICATION. 



Prof. Samuel B. Green St. Anthony Park 



Wyman Elliot Minneapolis 



A. W. Latham Minneapolis 



GIDEON MEMORIAL FUND. 



Wyman Elliot Minneapolis 



Prof. Samuel B. Green St. Anthony Park 



A. W. Latham Minneapolis 



PACKAGES AND MARKETING. 



R. A. Wright Eureka 



Levi Longfellow Minneapolis 



Thos. Redpath Wayzata 



ANNUAL MEETING, 1903, MINNESOTA STATE 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



REV. C. S. HARRISON, YORK, NEB. 



Delegate from Nebraska. 

 (Clipped from The Nebraska Farmer). 



The writer, having been appointed delegate to attend this meet- 

 ing will give brief report of the proceedings. The enthusiasm and 

 intense interest displayed were beyond praise. The meeting was 

 held in one of the large churches, and at the commencement the 

 audience room was filled. 



The writer moved to Minnesota in 1857, and was in that state 

 five years and knows the conditions well. We no more thought of 

 raising apples than oranges. But now the fruit displayed was as 

 fine as I ever saw in Kansas or Nebraska. The present successes 

 show a pluck and perseverence which no other state can show. 



Old Boreas seemed the tyrant of those cold regions. He stood in 

 the way with the cutting lash of the north wind in one hand and 

 frozen mercury in the other, and said, "No apples can be grown 

 in my realm." He threw down the gauntlet of defiance, and brave 

 men took up the dare and have "bearded the lion in his den." At 

 first they planted eastern fruits, and orchard after orchard was 



