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JOURNAL OF THE THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING 

 OF THE MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY, HELD IN MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., 

 DtC. 4-7, 1900. 



(For program of this meeting see page 474, Report of 1900.) 



TUESDAY MORNING SESSION. 

 W. W. Pendergast : Friends of the Horticultural Society : 



It is exceedingly pleasant to see so many here at the very be- 

 ginning, so early the first morning. It is a still grander thing to 

 begin at the beginning and go on through to the end, and listen 

 and learn and get something out of every day's exercises, and I 

 think the fact that we have so many together here at the very be- 

 ginning is an omen of success. 



We will open the exercises this morning with an invocation by 

 Rev. Clarence Swift, of the Park Avenue Congregational Church. 



The invocation was then offered by Dr. Swift, after which Mrs. 

 C. S. Hitchcock favored the audience with an instrumental selec- 

 tion on the piano. 



The president then announced the following members as a com- 

 mittee on credentials : Alfred Terry, Slayton ; W. L. Taylor, Litch- 

 field ; O. M. Lord, Minnesota City. 



GREETING BY THE PRESIDENT. 



W. W. PENDERGAST. HUTCHINSON. 



Now, friends, we are ready to commence our work of the week, for we 

 now have got to where we must put in ahnost a full week, taking Monday to 

 get here and Saturday to go home again. 



I have been struck, as I thought the matter over lately, with the growth 

 of this society, from the first I knew it, at the very outset. What a fee- 

 ble, struggling baby it was in its swaddling clothes ! How little by little, and 

 especially during the last eight or ten years, it has been growing, and now see 

 the large and strong giant it is getting to be, a "power in the land" in every 

 part of Minnesota! Yes, in every part of the northwest the Minnesota Horti- 

 cultural Society is known, and it is known for its good works. We have 

 started out to do something that will redound to the credit of this north- 

 west, and it will go on gathering strength after we, the old "stagers," who 



