^i)i)iial ]\Teetino, Dee., 1895. 



JOURNAL OF TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING OF 

 THE MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 

 HELD IN MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., DEC. 3, 4 AND 5, 1895. 



The meeting was called to order at 10 o'clock a. m., Tuesday, 

 December 3d, 1895, by President J. M. Underwood, in the 

 rooms of the County Commissioners in the new court-house. 



President Underwood opened the convention with the fol- 

 lowing remarks: 



Ladies and Gentlemen of the State Horticultural Society: — The 

 hour for holding the twenty-ninth session of this society has 

 arrived. It gives me great pleasure to welcome you all here 

 this morning, this bright, bracing winter morning, when I feel 

 that we must have become imbued with the same spirit as we 

 are favored with in such a bracing and glorious atmosphere 

 as gleets us this morning. 



There is no doubt but that in order to accomplish the great- 

 est amount of good in this world we have to be organized into 

 bodies representing the interests we are seeking to serve, and 

 in order to best further the interests of horticulture in the state 

 of Minnesota it was considered fitting and proper that this 

 society should be formed, twenty-nine years ago. The history 

 of this society is familiar to you all. Year after year we have 

 met in annual session, as well as in our summer meetings, and a 

 great amount of interest has been developed and much good 

 has been accomplished. I have no doubt that this meeting 

 will he fully as interesting, or more so than any we have had. 

 The surroundings under which we are placed are of such a 

 character as to stimulate us to our best efforts and bring out 

 our best thoughts, and I shall hope for great good to result 

 from the meeting which we are now about to hold. 



I wish to say as presiding officer that there is no formality 

 in the holding of our sessions, except that we read the various 



