456 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



SOUTHERN MINNESOTA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY- 

 ANNUAL MEETING, DEC. 4-5, 1894. 



CLARENCE WEDGE, SECRETARY. 



The following- program was prepared for the meeting and carried 

 out with the one exception of the paper on cherries. 



PROGRAM. 



OPENING SESSION, TUESDAY — 10:00 a. Dl. 



Prayer by Rev. G. A. Cooke. 



Raspberries for the Home and Market— Mrs. Geo. II. Prescott. 

 My Experience with Strawberries— C. L. Hill. 

 Appointment of Committees by the President. 



TUESDAY AFTERNOON SESSION— 1 : SO p, m 



President's Address— Pres. P. W. Kimball. 



Facts and Figures from my Orchard— H. E. Nielson. 



Thirty Years among Minnesota Orcliards— Geo. H. Prescott. 



Some Practical Methods of Grafting, illustrated- -Clarence Wedge. 



The Apple— E. B. Crane, Austin. 



Peaches in Minnesota— G. D. Barron. 



Question Bo.x. 



TUESD.4.Y EVENING SESSION— 7 : 30 p. m. 



Music- Male Quartette. 



Address of Welcome— Hon. T. V. Knatvold, Mayor of Albert Lea. 



Response— O. W. Shaw, Austin. 



Music— Violin Solo. 



What I Know about Farming— C. S. Edwards. 



Tree Culture Applied to our Lawns and Avenues— D. G. Parker. 



Discussion. 



Music— Male Quartette. 



Hardy Shrubs and Flowers— James .Jorgensen. 



WEDNESDAY MORNING SESSION -9:00 a. m. 



Report of committees. 



How to Prune the Grape, illustrated— C. R. Ransom. 



What one Grape Vine can do— Geo. Gardner. 



How we Grow Cherries— G. E. Norton. 



Question Box. 



Secretary's Report. 



Election of Officers. 



WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON SESSION— 1 :30 p. m. 



Suggestions on Planting Evergreens— E. H. S. Dartt, Supt. of Owatoiina Experiment 

 Station. 



Budded Trees and the Men who Sell 'I'hem— Dowain Cook, Supt. of Windoin Experi- 

 ment Station. 



Discussion on Vegetable Gardening— Led by .1. C. Frost. C. L. Hill and others, 



Tuesday MokniiXG Session. 



In the absence of Pres. Kimball, the societ}^ was called to order 

 by the vice-president, Geo. H. Prescott, who continued to preside 

 during the entire meeting. 



Mrs. Geo. H. Prescott in her paper on raspberries recommended 

 the Doolittle blackcap and the Philadelphia red as best for 

 farmers to plant. A new planting of the blacks should be made as 

 often as once in three or four years. For market would set the 

 Greg'g of the blacks and the Turner and Cuthbert of the reds. It is 

 a good plan to begin to cover the Gregg quite earl}-, about October 

 15, while the stalks may be easily bent. 



