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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. SF 
acts of incorporation, within the next two or three years, raise 
funds enough to purchase a lot or lots, and erect a fine build- 
ing, and have a house and a hall for our meetings, and a place 
to hold our fairs and exhibitions, and have our fruit and 
flower shows at least twice in each year, and have our place 
for a distributing point of seeds, plants and horticultural im- 
plements. Look at the horticultural halls in Boston and Phil- 
adelphia. Are they not the pride of those cities? And does 
horticulture go a begging in Massachusetts, with her society 
worth over $2,000,000, and numbering among its members 
some of the best educated and noblest minds of that Common- 
wealth ? I tell you, members of the Minnesota Horticultural 
‘Society, if you would have your society and your calling re- 
spected and exalted in the minds of others, you must respect 
and exalt it yourselves, with your hands, minds, and purses if 
necessary. 
A vote of thanks was tendered, and a committee appointed 
to report in the afternoon upon its very striking suggestions. 
Messrs. Moulton, Nutting and Jewell were the committee. 
A communication from Peter M. Gideon, of Excelsior, was 
read. It was relative to the rejection from the horticultural 
report of his address on the “ fast horse,” and the toleration 
of horse-racing at State Fairs to the detriment of more inter- 
esting and worthy objects. 
Moved that it be accepted and placed on file for future 
reference. 
Moved that the reports of each day’s proceedings be read 
and corrected the following morning. 
Mr. Ford stated that his reasons for wishing this motion to 
pass was that last year the reports had made it appear that 
he had said entirely contrary to his views, and in that shape 
they had found their way into the volume of Transactions. 
Motion carried. 
The Secretary requested all members whose remarks were 
wrongly reported to notify him of the fact before the pro- 
ceedings are compiled for publication. 
Considerable discussion followed on the recent horticultural 
reports printed, and C. H. Clark moved, and was seconded by 
Mr. Harris, that we pass the following vote of thanks: 
Resolved, That the thanks of this society are due, and are hereby 
heartily extended to the committee who have so laboriously, and from the 
scattered condition of the material, effected so satisfactory a compilation 
of our Transactions as appears in our first published volume. 
Passed. 
Moved by Mr. Jewell and seconded by Mr. Clark, that a 
committee be appointed by the chair for drafting rules and 
by-laws for the use of this society. 
