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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL socipTy. —§ 109° 
The motion was carried. 
Mr. Elliot. The process is simple. Pick the fruit carefully 
when nicely colored, pack in a box that has a whole top, place on 
ice with a couple of inches of sawdust between, cover with a cake 
of ice, and then cover the whole well with sawdust. The Duchess, 
Fall Stripe and Transcendent thus treated keep nicely ; Red Astra- 
chan not so well. 
_ Adjourned to 9 o’clock Thursday morning. 
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THURSDAY MORNING. 
REPORT OF THE SECREPARY. 
The Society was called to order by the President at 9:30 o’clock. 
Communications were read from C. D. McKellup, of Faribault, 
and from Henry 8. Evans, the Secretary of the Montreal Horti- 
cultural Society. 
The Report of the Secretary was read and accepted and a yesolu- 
tion was passed thanking the Secretary for his full report and the 
thorough performance of his duties. 
The following is the report in full: 
Summer Meeting. 
GENTLEMEN :—The Secretary has but little of interest to make a report of. 
The Society held a meeting at the Agricultural College, at Minneapolis, June 
28th. The attendance was not large but there was a very fair exhibition of 
small fruits, vegetables, flowers and plants. Two papers of high character 
were read at this meeting, one by Prof. Chas. A. Morey, of Winona, on 
Fungi, touching on blight incidentally, and the other on Horticulture in its 
relations to education. A very pleasant feature of this meeting was a picnic 
dinner spread on the University grounds by the ladies of Minneapolis. All 
who attended this meeting expressed themselves well satisfied, but it was 
evident to me that the meeting amounted to little more than a meeting of 
those members of the State Society residing in Hennepin and Ramsey coun- 
ties. The meeting and exhibition might therefore just as well be held by 
the horticultural-societies of these counties, and hence although heretofore 
heartily in favor of a summer meeting of the State Society, Iam notin favor 
of another attempt in that direction. The hope that such a meeting and 
exhibition would finally draw fromall parts of the State, does not give much 
promise of fulfillment. Hence the abandonment of this idea on my part. 
