504 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



After some discussion, on motion of Col. Stevens the report of the 

 executive committee was laid on the table until the next day, and 

 the election of officers for the ensuing- year was proceeded with. 



The following officers were elected for 1894. (See index.) 



The meeting- then adjourned. 



EvEx\iNG Session, Thursday, January 11, 1894. 



The meeting was called to order by Vice-President O. F. Brand. 



L. R. Moyer, Montevideo, presented his report as a member of the 

 committee on forestr3^ (See index.) 



This was followed by a paper on the subject of "Forest Education 

 and Administration in Europe," b}^ N. F. Brand, Faribault. (See 

 index). 



Secretary Latham : Many of our members were present at the 

 meeting h-eld at Mrs. Dorilus Morrison's last winter, where she so 

 splendidly entertained us. At that time a proposition was made 

 looking- toward holding a rose fete. A committee was appointed 

 and Mrs. Marrison was made chairman of that committee, and she 

 has sent us a paper on that subject which I will read. 



Mrs. Morrison's paper was then read by the secretary. 



COMMUNICATION FROM MRS. D. MORRISON. 



Dear Mr. Latham: — There has been such an uncertain feeling 

 upon mjr part, owing to our winter plaus for leaving the city this 

 month, that it seeins more than likely to me I shall be absent from 

 home at the January meeting of the State Horticultural Society. 



I regret this extremely, as I should be pleased to be present at the 

 interesting session, to add mj word of encouragement and greeting 

 to the members, whom I so pleasantlj^ remember, as well as to listen 

 to the papers and reports, which, I am sure, will be worth hearing. 



It occurs to me, that instead of preparing any formal report as to 

 the "National Rose Show/' which was proposed by me at the last 

 year's meeting of the society, that it ma}^ be cjuite as well for me to 

 brieflj' state in this letter to you (as secretary of the association and 

 member of the rose show committee) the facts as thej' have tran- 

 spired, so far as my agenc}'^ and experience in the matter is con- 

 cerned. Should you desire to bring thesvibject before the meeting, 

 yovi are quite at liberty to use this letter as 3'ou may deem proper. 



During our visit to New Mexico, last winter, a wide-spread interest 

 was created at Santa VC, the present seat of government for that ter- 

 ritory, where the project of our rose show became noised about. It so 

 transpired that we were visiting there the Governor and Mrs. Prince, 

 the former of whom was the vice-president and the latter the first 

 lady member of the horticultural society of New Mexico. Both tlie 

 Governor and Mrs. Prince manifested the liveliest interest possible, 

 as well as entire confidence in the feasibility of the undertaking; so 

 much so that they invited me, during my first week's staj' with 

 then], to repeat mj^ paper upon the "Culture of the Rose in Private 

 Grounds" in the drawing-room of the famous old gubernatorial 

 palace there, to which they invited President Arthur Boj'd, of the 

 New Mexico Horticultural Society, and about lifty other guests to be 

 present. It will please j^ou to learn that all seemed impressed with 

 the desirabilitj' of a national rose festival, and to be in sympatliy 

 and accord in a way to volunteer every possible co-operation in any 

 future undertaking of that kind which we maj' decide upon. Tlie 

 following morning the Archbishop Salpointe, who is an aged man 

 and something of a cripple by reason of rheumatism, sent his niece 



