ANNUAL MEETING, I9O3, MINN. STATE HORT. SOCIETY. 9 



seedling apples and seventy-six for late seedling apples, and in all 

 118 varieties of winter seedlings were shown. A. B. Lyman, of Ex- 

 ■celsior, received the first prize for the best late winter seedling apple 

 and also for the best early winter seedling apple. The premiums 

 awarded for fruit were divided among some thirty exhibitors, the 

 greatest amount of money paid by the horticultural society to any 

 one person going to J. A. Howard, of Hammond, who received in 

 all from that source $34.00. The whole story of the awards is told 

 in the list which follows this report. 



The attendance at the meeting was in every way satisfactory. 

 When the session opened at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning there were 

 in the neighborhood of 300 in the hall, about seventy-five of these 

 l>eing students from the School of Agriculture — and more or less of 

 these students were in attendance during the whole meeting. Tues- 

 day morning's session was devoted largely to small fruits. The 

 meeting opened with a talk on the field culture of strawberries, by 

 A. Brackett, of Excelsior, which was a very practical talk and cov- 

 •ered the ground with much thoroughness. It would be impossible 

 in this report to take up and consider the various papers that were 

 at the meeting. There were in all fifty-five papers on the program, 

 nearly all of which were presented in the order as announced. Be- 

 sides these there were a large number of reports of various officers 

 connected with the association, so that in the neighborhood of eighty 

 people participated in a formal manner in the program, and includ- 

 ing those who took part in the discussions the number who partici- 

 pated would be very much larger. The meeting was made espe- 

 cially enjoyable by the character of the room in which it 

 was held, it being arranged in a semi-circular form, with the seats 

 rising one above another towards the back of the room, the light 

 and acoustic properties of the room being most excellent. Scarcely 

 a word was lost to any member during the course of proceedings. 



The last day of the session was probably the one of most in- 

 terest to the fruit growers, who in large part made up the attend- 

 ance, the subject of apple growing in the orchard and nursery 

 being under discussion. One hundred and fifty to two hundred of 

 earnest fruit growers of the northwest made up the audience and 

 many of these took part in the discussions. 



As usual we had present with us a good sprinkling of visitors 

 from the states around us. Prof. C. M. Waldron, from the North 

 Dakota Experiment Station; Prof. N. E. Hansen, from the South 

 Dakota Experiment Station; Mr. P. J. Bentz, of Woonsocket, rep- 

 resenting the South Dakota Society ; and Mr. A. Norby, of Madison, 

 S. D.; from Iowa, as a representative of Iowa Society came Mr. 



