486 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



FIRST DAY. 



Morning Session, Tuesday, January 9, 189i. 



The annual meeting- of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society 

 was called to order bj^ President J. M. Underwood. 



Rev. H. \V. Gleason,editorof the "Northwestern Congregationalist," 

 offered prayer, after which Pres. Underwood addressed the society 

 in the following words: 



Members of State Horticultural Society.— 1 am pleased to meet 

 here with you this morning and see so many familiar faces, and 

 also to see some faces here that are not so familiar to me, but with 

 whom I hope we shall become well acquainted. I trust in our de- 

 liberations here in the next few daj^s that each person that comes 

 into this room will feel that he has a personal work in contributing 

 to the pleasure and success of our meeting, and that each one of us 

 is to consider, what can I do, what can each one of us do, to add to 

 the pleasures of our ineetings? and if we each take up this work in 

 that spirit, I am sure we will have a very interesting time. Now, as 

 the time passes, I hope you will be careful to note anything- in the 

 line of horticultural experience that you wish to have brought 

 out; and if you have any thought that will help any one in this line, 

 remember that our proceedings are published and that they go to all 

 parts of the state, and a great man}^ places out of the state, where 

 that thought will have its effect and produce a good result in help- 

 ing some one to do something better than he has been doing here- 

 tofore, or that will bring out a discovery on some subject which 

 will give us light and make the way clear for us; and so you will 

 help to make our society productive of great good. Anything that 

 gives ine something to do is always a pleasure, and all the work you 

 can put upon me in this horticultural society, I am alwajs glad to 

 take up and do my best. Let us all have that same spirit and feel- 

 ing and see how many we can interest in this work. You can invite 

 your friends in the city to come in and fill up our ranks, and we will 

 try and interest them, and to make amends for those who cannot be 

 here. It seems to be impossible for us to secure reductions of rates 

 from the railroads, and it seems a little difficult to get people who 

 have to come here fiftj' to hundred miles or more to attend our 

 meetings, but we can make that loss up largely if our friends in this 

 city will come in and show their good will bj^ giving us their assist- 

 ance. 



Pres. Underwood: I will appoint as members of committee on cre- 

 dentials: Messrs. J. S. Harris, S. D. Richardson and L. R. Moyer. 



The first on our program is the report of the committee on small 

 fruits, and as Mr.Cook is not present, I will ask the secretary to read 

 his report. 



"Report of Committee on Small Fruits," by M. W. Cook, Roch- 

 ester. ^See index.) 



The following report was then read: "Report on Small Fruits," 

 E. E. Harris, Ea Crescent. (See index.) 



A discussion followed the reading of these two reports. 



Mr. Harris: I wish to present the credentials of Prof. N. E. Hansen* 

 of the Iowa Society, and I move that his credentials be accepted, and 

 that he be made an lionorary member of our society for one year. 

 Carried. 



The "Report on Small Fruits," by Wm. Robinson,Hastings,was then 

 read. (See index). A short discussion followed. 



The secretary next read the following paper: 



