484 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



TUESDAY AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The meeting was called to order at 2 o'clock by the president, 

 Mr. Wedge. 



The President : We will at once take up the program for the 

 afternoon, and I will, call upon an old resident for the first number. 

 I presume a good many of the older members know that when Mr. 

 Pond speaks of his father he is having reference to a noted Indian 

 missionary, Gideon Pond, of whom most of you know or have heard, 

 and Mr. E. R. Pond will now tell us something of early horticulture 

 in the state. 



Mr. E. R. Pond then read a paper on the subject of "Lights and 

 Shadows of Pioneer Fruit Growing." (See index.) 



Discussion. 



The report of the committee on credentials being called for. 

 Judge L. R. Moyer, chairman, reported the following named dele- 

 gates entitled to represent their respective organizations : A. D. 

 Barnes, Waupaca, representing the Wisconsin State Horticultural 

 Society; P. J. Bentz, Woonsocket, S. D., South Dakota State Hor- 

 ticultural Society ; P. Clausen, Albert Lea, Southern Minnesota Hor- 

 ticultural Society ; representatives of local societies and visitors, Geo. 

 J. Kellogg, Lake Mills, Wis.; A. J. Philips, West Salem, Wis.; 

 Rev. C. S. Harrison, York, Neb. 



On motion of Prof Green the report of the committee was 

 adopted. 



The President : We are very much interested in these dele- 

 gates, and we would like to hear a word of cheer and encourage- 

 ment from each one. I will call upon them in the order in which 

 they were reported, and the first on the list is Mr. Barnes, of Wis- 

 consin. 



Mr. A. D. Barnes (Wis.) : Mr. President and Fellow Horticul- 

 turists : We are very glad to be with you again, and I assure you 

 that your meetings are and always have been very interesting to 

 me, and the a'ppearance of so many students from the school of agri- 

 sulture betokens to me that you have lots of young timber grow- 

 ing up, although you are classed among the prairie states. I have 

 a formal report which I will submit later during the meeting, there- 

 fore I shall not take up any more of your time now, However, I 

 would like to extend to you an invitation to meet with us in our 

 annual meeting at Madison the first full week in February. I always 

 enjoy the company of Minnesota friends, and I hope you may have 

 a profitable and enjoyable meeting. 



The President : The delegate from the South Dakota society 

 is Mr. P. J. Bentz, who is also president of that society. The South 

 Dakota society is especially near to us, since it it a daughter of 

 this society. I will now call upon Mr. Bentz. ♦ 



Mr. P. J. Bentz (S. D.) : I see by the program that there are 

 so many good things to be said here that it appears like a waste of 

 time for me to speak at any length just now. I simply want to say 

 that we in South Dakota are making a little progress. Among the 

 things that indicate progression is the fact that we have just se- 

 cured a law permitting us to publish our annual reports, a conces- 



