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fifty copies of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society Transactions for 
1873, and will be pleased to receive copies in exchange. 
I regret that we are unable to be represented at your meeting by a 
large delegation, but hope this will not prevent the sending of delegates 
from your society to our meeting at Madison, February 3-5, of which a 
programme is enclosed. We anticipate an unusually important meeting. 
In many respects Wisconsin and Minnesota have the same horticultural 
wants, and our experiences will be mutually advantageous. 
The experiences of the last year—discouraging for the present—will 
ultimately do good. I look forward with entire confidence to successful 
fruit-growing in both the States in the future. ‘ 
Let me express the hope that your society will not confine itself to 
fruit culture, important as this is. The cultivation of vegetables, of 
plants and flowers, are parts of horticulture, and should receive attention 
from our societies. 
I regret that time has not been found to fulfill my partial promise to 
furnish a paper for your meeting. I can only say that there is here in 
Wisconsin a hopeful field for the future, a growing interest in the cause, 
an increasing number of local horticultural societies, and an increased 
interest in horticultural literature. 
With best wishes, 
Truly yours, 
G. E. Morrow, 
Recording Sec. Wis. State Hort. Society. 
It was voted that this communication be received, and 
that copies of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society Pro- 
ceedings be sent in exchange for those we had received. 
The President moved that the retiring Secretary be elected 
a delegate to the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society in the 
meeting to be held February 3-5. 
Carried. 
The President made a brief address in which he said that he 
hoped that we would soon have a permanent fund for sustain- 
ing the State Horticultural Society upon a permanent. basis. 
It is asking too much of delegates to spend their time and de- 
fray their own expenses in visiting other State meetings. We 
ought also to have a summer meeting, for the exhibition of 
fruits that cannot be exhibited at a winter meeting. 
A communication was read and received from D. F. Kelly, 
of Northfield, Minn. (See Reports and Miscellaneous Pa- 
pers. ) 
The President moved a vote of thanks to the citizens of 
Minneapolis, for their princely hospitality, and to the City 
Council for the use of their Chamber. 
Mr. Harris seconded the motion, and said that it was well 
known that there was no better place for a Horticultural Con- 
vention, and no place in the Northwest where the horticul- 
tural interest was better represented than in this city. 
The motion was carried unanimously. 
L. M. Ford, chairman of the committee to award premiums 
on report of Viewing Committee, said the report on Flowers 
was an excellent one, and he hoped it would be published. 
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