244 ANNUAL REPORT 



ceedings of its annual and semi-annual meetings, and the essays 

 and reports read at them has been received from the secretary, 

 Mr. S. D. Hillman, Minneapolis, Minn. The Minnesota Horti- 

 cultural Society is already well and favorably known to their co- 

 workers throughout the country, and this report, embracing as 

 it does many practical papers on important subjects with the 

 discussions had thereon will most certainly add to that apprecia- 

 tion. As with the report of our own state society we shall hope 

 from time to time to draw from those pages for the instruction 

 of our readers as the returning seasons call for them. — Colmati's 

 Rural World. 



The annual report of the Minnesota State Horticultural 

 Society for 1886 has been received. As usual it contains nearly 

 five hundred pages, but the matter contained and its arrangement 

 make it one of the best reports that has yet reached this office 

 from any of the states. The horticulturists of Minnesota can 

 well feel proud of their recent achievements and the excellent 

 records made for the North Star State in fruitgrowing. — Minne- 

 apolis Farm Stock and Home. 



FROM HON. MARSHALL P. WILDER. 



Dorchester, July 11, 1886. 

 Thanks for the interesting and useful report of the Minne- 

 sota Horticultural Society, which has done so much, and is 

 always doing, good work: Hoping that the Society will come 

 down in full representation with her good and grand friends 

 to the meeting of the American Pomological Society next year 

 at Boston, I am as ever, the friend of your Society, 



Marshall P. Wilder. 



S. B. Hillman, Secretary, etc.: 



Five weeks ago to-day the hand that penned those kindly words 

 was stilled in death. The life of that great man went suddenly 

 but sweetly out, like morning incense to the skies. 



Secretary Manning, of the Massachusetts Society, writes: 



'•'His last illness was quite short. He was at the meeting of 

 this society on the fourth of December and afterwards presided 

 at the monthly dinner of the Massachusetts Agricultural Club, of 

 which he was president, on the same day. He was generally very 

 constant in visiting these rooms every Saturday and generally came 

 in once or twice a week besides. * * * Thursday morning 



