484 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTUKAL SOCIETY 



The President : We are very glad, indeed, to have so many of 

 our sister societies represented here, and we would like to hear 

 from each one of them what they are doing in their respective organ- 

 izations. I will first call on Col. C. L. Watrous to say a few words. 



Col. C. L. Watrous (Iowa) : I should like to make you a 

 little speech forty or fifty minutes long, but my watch tells me it 

 is considerably after twelve o'clock, and during a rather long life I 

 have found that nothing will so destroy a man's temper as to talk 

 to him when he is hungry. I will deliver my speech when my time 

 comes on the program, but just at present I will spare you. 



The President : Col. Watrous is a Quaker and prefers to speak 

 only when the spirit moves. (Laughter.) Now we want to hear 

 from Mr. Stevenson, from the far north across the border. 



Remarks by A. P. Stevenson. (See index.) 



The President : Thank you, Mr. Stevenson, we are very glad 

 to hear such a report from the far north. Now we would like to 

 hear a word from Mr. Freeman, from the Southern Minnesota 

 Horticultural Society. 



Mr. Jno. Freeman : As the official representative of the South- 

 ern Minnesota Horticultural Society, I take great pleasure in pre- 

 senting to you its sincere and hearty greetings. Although this is 

 its first official representation before your honorable body, still that 

 field has been represented for many years in your annual meetings, 

 and the record df its deliberations has frequently appeared in your 

 past reports, and these reports have brought back to us much that 

 was of great benefit and encouragement. I believe this is the third 

 Endeavor I have made to be present at your annual meeting, and 

 now that I am here I hope to have a pleasant and profitable time 

 with you. At some future time during this meeting I hope to be 

 able to speak to you more fully of the interests and desires of our 

 southern Minnesota society. 



The President : I want to say that all the delegates from these 

 sister societies are heartily welcome here ; we give them a sincere 

 and cordial greeting, and should be glad to have them take an 

 active part in our exercises and deliberations here during the week. 

 It is a great mark of appreciation of the work you are doing to be 

 told by people from Manitoba that they have been helped and stim- 

 ulated by what you have done and that they are dependent upon 

 and draw their greatest help from this society. There are other 

 societies in other states that have helped us along, and we shall 

 always feel under obligations to all the friends from those sister 

 societies that have come here today to give us the advantages of their 

 experience in the past, and if we can say anything in the course 



