OF THE 
MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The regular summer gathering of the society will be held as 
usual this year at the State Experiment Station, at St. Anthony Park, 
on Saturday, the 25th day of June. It is the purpose to set this date 
to accommodate the rose and strawberry growers in those parts of 
the state most accessible to the place of meeting, though the 
selection of dates this season has been influenced by the desire to 
convene in juxtaposition with the “American Out-Door Art Asso- 
ciation,’ which meets in annual session June 22, 23 and 24. The work 
of that association is in close sympathy with that of our own, and it 
is hoped that many of our members may find it possible to attend 
their meeting here. 
No special departure from the order of exercises of previous sim- 
ilar gatherings at this interesting place has been arranged, the 
usual general plan being very acceptable and hard to improve upon. 
The forenoon will be given up to a survey of the grounds and a 
study of the infinite array of experiments in all branches of agri- 
culture being carried on there under the guidance of the professors 
attached to the station and their corps of assistants. There ought to 
be enough to be learned in such a tour of inspection to well repay 
the trouble incident to attendance upon the meeting. At all events, 
a two hour’s tramp in the experiment fields will whet the appetite 
for the mid-day lunch, which, meantime, your “gude wife” will have 
been preparing in one of the spacious hallsonthe grounds. And do 
not forget to bring along a well filled lunch basket to help swell 
the general fund of good things. As for fruit, we hope to feast on 
the strawberries brought by our exhibitors, while the roses and 
bouquets will grace and adorn the tables. 
Every one is welcome to this festive occasion. If nota member, 
$1.00 will make you such and give you all the publications of the 
society, and a voice in its deliberations, The society never was so 
strong and vigorous as today, and in the grand work before it you 
may well be proud to share. 
After lunch the regular summer session of the society will be held. 
No formal program has been prepared for this occasion, but a 
number of practical horticulturists and friends of horticulture will 
