62 ANNUAL REPORT 



Otay, San Diego Co., Cal., January 1 3, 1890. 

 Minnesota Stale Horticultural Society. 



We send greetings, and an olive branch as a token that there is 

 a green spot on earth yet, and thirty-four kinds of flowers picked 

 from my garden today. 



Yes, they were grown in a hot house, 100 miles square, with 

 naught but the bright dome of heaven to keep the frost out. 



I would sooner live here in a hut, thatched with tula? grass, than 

 to live in Washburn's palace, and have I scream six months of the 

 year. 



G. S. WOOLSEF. 



Mr. Gaylord was then introduced to the meeting, and asked to 

 give a report of the last meeting at Waverly. He replied that he 

 had not had time to make a written report, as he had not re- 

 ceived his credentials to their meeting until a day or two before, 

 which was entirely occupied in making preparations necessary for 

 leaving home, but would say: 



Our meeting at Waverly was one of interest but with a small 

 number in attendance, particularly was this true as to the citizens 

 of Waverly, who were out in very limited numbers. 



Some very interesting papers were read, one by M. E. Hinkley, 

 of Marcus, Iowa, on the black spruces he had secured from the 

 Black Hills, exhibiting some very fine specimens of young trees. 



R. P. Speer, refusing to act as president another term, J. C. Fer- 

 ris, of Hampton, was unanimously elected for president for the 

 ensuing year, and Elmer Eeeve, for secretary; vice president, C. H. 

 True, of Edgewood, and Norman Reeve, treasurer. 



Some very interesting articles were read on the tree agent laws, 

 one in favor of more law, by J. C. Ferris; one opposed to the Min- 

 nesota law, by E. M. Sherman, and a number of others both pro and 

 con. 



During the last evening the society was given a first-class liter- 

 ary entertainment by the professional teachers, and high school 

 scholars of Waverly, displaying an unusual degree of thorough 

 training which made the evening's exercises eminently successful. 

 Well may Waverly be proud of their professor. 



It might be well to add the society recommended for the Rus- 

 sian list the Hibernal and Lieby, adding for a general list a num- 

 ber of the old varieties. Our state secretary, George Van Hou- 

 ten, responded after the close of the school entertainment with an 

 address both able and sublime, showing a master's work by a mas- 

 ter's hand. 



