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you four years and I think that someone else should step in now 

 and take my position, someone who shall take the work up where I 

 leave it, and do it much better than I have done. I hope you will 

 see fit to take someone else for this position. 



Mr. Barrett. I do hope that Mr. Wyman Elliot will not resign. 

 He is thoroughly posted in this work, has had long experience, and 

 we have perfect confidence in him. He is able and capable and he 

 can lift up this standard and carry it on to victory. I plead for 

 Mr. Wyman Elliot as our President. 



Pres. Elliot was then reelected by a unanimous vote president 

 the year 1890. 



REMARKS BY PRESIDENT ELLIOT. 



Kind friends, I thank you very much for this, recognition 

 of the services I have rendered in the past. I hope in the 

 future I shall have the hearthy co-operation of every member; 

 that every one will feel that what is to the interest of this society 

 should be taken hold of and given encouragement. I hope you 

 will all feel, as I do, that if there is one thing in the state of Min- 

 nesota that needs looking after it is the horticultural interest. We 

 have each and every one of the older members tried to do a little, 

 in our feeble way, but unless we have the hearty co-operation of 

 the risiog generation, these young men and these young ladies, and 

 the boys and girls that are following us, we shall make but feeble 

 effort to bring to perfection what we are aiming at. I hope each 

 one of you will feel a responsibility resting upon yourselves and 

 not upon the officers of the society alone. 



It is hardly worth while for me to point out the difficulties of 

 past service, but let us aim to reach forward in the future to some- 

 thing higher, and let us do all we can for the best interests of the 

 greatest number. We are all well aware that we have our imperfec- 

 tions. There are some things we can do and do right. There are other 

 things that we cannot, and we have to seek guidance and direction 

 and do the best we can. We have to look for guidance from Nature's 

 laws, and get instruction from those people who are better posted 

 than we are. I feel myself, when I come to look through the re- 

 ports of the different societies we are exchanging with, that the 

 older I grow the less I think I know, and if we can all feel that 

 way, I think we can do good work, and do more than we are doing 

 now. 



There is one improvement over last year. I think that our com- 

 ing report will show that we have a greater number of reports from 

 committees than ever before, and I must say that as I have looked 

 over them very carefully as they came in, some good ideas have 



