TIVE COMMITTEE. 
ype, through ignorance of the persistency of the noxious insect 
e were combating. © 
The members of your committee were very solicitous in inter- 
_ At that time we were certain we were advocating a wise and just 
measure in seeking legislation upon this important subject. The 
developments the past season have proved that we had well founded 
_ apprehensions and had not misjudged the persistency of this much 
Re dreaded foe to the interests of horticulture. If reports are true we 
have already several places within the state where the San José 
scale has been found, and unless some drastic restrictive measures 
_ are adopted every nursery and garden growing trees will be infested. 
ANNUAL MEETING, DEC. 7 TO 11, 1897. 
F. H. NUTTER, MINNEAPOLIS, 
The thirty-first annual meeting of the Minnesota State Horticul- 
tural Society was held, according to announcement, in the offices of 
the county commissioners at the court house in Minneapolis, and 
the society can but acknowledge with thanks the courtesy that has 
allowed them the use of rooms so well adapted to their needs. The 
attendance was excellent and several times tested the capacity of 
_ the hall. About one-fourth more railroad certificates were received 
_ than the year before. Much interest was shown in the proceedings, 
_ though it was with feelings of sadness that regular attendants 
a noted the absence of familiar faces, some of which it is to be hoped 
will soon reappear, others never again to be met with in our circle. 
_ Notwithstanding the general shortness of this year’s apple crop, 
the fruit exhibit was in most respects superior to that of the pre- 
vious year, there being about 800 plates of apples shown, besides 
_ geveral plates of fine plums, and one exhibit of some twenty plates of 
_ grapes inexcellent condition. An exhibit of plums and crab apples 
_ by Thomas Frankand, of Stonewall, Manitoba, accompanied by the 
Ss photograph of this enthusiastic experimenter, attracted merited 
i, attention, and the seeds from the fruit were eagerly sought for by 
_ our growers. Some general idea may be gathered from the list of 
awards of premiums which follows. 
_ The effect of subdividing the subjects to be considered and re- 
_ questing that the papers thereon be restricted to five minutes, was 
_ geen in the promptness with which they were presented, and the 
3 fact that nearly every session closed with the program completed; 
neither did the general interest of the audience in the papers seem 
to flag. 
_ The reports of the various officers and committees showed the 
society to be ina prosperous condition and its work progressing 
_ satisfactorily, and the re-election of all the old officers, except that 
BL. of treasurer—the retiring tenant of that office being en route for 
_ Alaska—without opposition, except in a single instance, indicated 
