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invite the members of the legislature to be present on that 

 occasion. 



The balance of the forenoon was devoted to the arrangement 

 of exhibits. 



On motion, the meeting adjourned until 2 o'clock p. m. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



Tuesday, Jan. 18, 1887. 



The meeting was called to order by President Elliot at 2 

 o' clock P. M. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



Prof. D. E. Maginnis, of the St. Paul Farmer, was introduced 

 and delivered the following address of welcome: 



Gentlemen of the State Horticultural and Aynher (Jane Associations of 



Minnesota : 



Through the courtesy of your committee I am here to-day to 

 welcome you to the capital city of Minnesota; a city in whose 

 greatness and substantial prosperity, as with its younger but 

 equally vigorous sister, Minneapolis, we all take a just pride; if 

 only because they are a reflex of the causes which make them; 

 for the nature of the country to which cities are tributary de- 

 termines their growth as inflexibly as the forces which limit our 

 existence. By a skilful adaptation of means to the end success 

 has often crowned the efforts where conditions are not in the 

 highest degree propitious, and difttculties seemed insurmount- 

 able. The very features of our climate, which fit it in such an 

 eminent degree for the growth of the cereals and for the physi- 

 cal well being of our kind, do not offer the most favorable con- 

 ditions for certain of our larger fruits, but who shall say that 

 Minnesota will not yet send coals to Newcastle by exporting 

 apples to Michigan and pears to the Golden State. I see before 

 me the faces of men who have devoted years of painstaking ob- 

 servation and patient experiments to the origination of new and 

 acclimatization of known varieties of fruits, and your work has 

 surely not been in vain, for although the unprecedented cold of 

 the last three winters has blasted many a promising orchard. 



