BIOGRAPHY OF EX SEC'Y CHARLES Y. LACY. 3 



efforts, and I am glad to feel that it does. I am glad to note that 

 success is shown in the improvement around thousands of north- 

 western homes, that it is shown in the niembership of the society 

 and the attendance at its meetings, that it is shown in the esteem of 

 the people as exhibited in legislation for the aid and promotion of 

 horticultural objects." 



During this period, also, he was for one year secretary of the 

 Industrial Section of the National Educational Association, and an 

 occasional contributor to the Farmers' Union and other Alinneapolis 

 papers. 



The allurements of sheep raising and wool growing drew Mr. 

 Lacy to Montana in 1880, where he continued to reside for nineteen 

 years. In 1888 he married Aliss Ella F. Peck, of Providence, R. I. 

 In 1895 financial wreck overtook his business as the combined result 

 of the repeal of duty on wool and panic conditions generally. Four 

 years later he removed to California, and his home is now in the city 

 of Longbeach, on the shore of the Pacific ocean. 



Mr. Lacy is still in the prime of life, w'ith many years of activity 

 before him, and we expect to hear of a renewed interest in horti- 

 cultural pursuits in the land of sunshine to which he has removed, 

 and of successful, practical results therefrom. Some of the best 

 California fruit growers have graduated from the Alinnesota State 

 Horticultural Society. A. W. L. 



ANNUAL MEETING, DEC. 4-7, 1900, MINNESOTA STATE 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



F. H. NUTTER, MINNEAPOLIS. 



The thirty-fourth annual meeting of the Minnesota State 

 Horticultural Society has become a part of our history and a very 

 pleasant incident therein, too. 



In anticipation of an attendance which would require more ex- 

 tended accommodations than hitherto, the lecture room and adjacent 

 class rooms of the Plymouth church were secured for the use of the 

 society, and this anticipation w^as not unfounded, for before the ses- 

 sion of Tuesday forenoon was adjourned 125 members were found 

 to be in attendance. It may safely be stated that the attendance was 

 fifty per cent larger than at any previous meeting. In the exhibition 

 rooms a similar, though not so large, increase was noted, the num- 

 ber of entries being 278, compared with 251 in 1899 and 198 in 1898. 

 The accommodations of the two commodious exhibition rooms, how- 

 ever, were taxed to the utmost. $110 was divided up as premiums. 



