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many are in favor of making a good, grand display at the Ex- 

 position. 



Senator Probstfield: I believe it would be more proper to find 

 out who is opposed to it, instead of who is in favor. I do not 

 believe there will be any opposition to it. I think the motion 

 made by the gentleman here is the proper one. I think the 

 executive committee is able to handle that matter. 



Geo. J. Kellogg: The only thing we are afraid of is that you 

 have got the inside track and are going to beat us. 



The matter of a display at the Columbian I Exposition was 

 then referred to the executive committee with power to act. 



Pres. Elliot: There is another matter in regard to the 

 American Nurserymens Associai on. The American Nursery- 

 mens Association is a body of men representing the whole of 

 the United States. They are the enterprising, progressive, 

 pushing men, who have sent their tree agents so plentifully 

 among us in the past, and they are coming out here to see 

 what kind of a country this is. We rather shut them off with 

 our nursery laws and they want to come here and look around 

 a little and see what there is here. There will be a body of 

 from four to six hundred of them so I am informed. The pres- 

 ident of that association, Mr. Emery, of Lake City, wrote to 

 me and wished me to interest myself in behalf of their associa- 

 tion in securing a place of meeting for them here next June. 

 They wish to remain here some eight or ten days, in the city 

 and in the state, and they want our society as a society to 

 heartily co-operate with them, and furthermore, they wish us 

 to become honorary members of the association. I will have 

 the secretary read a communication from their secretary. 



The secretary then read the following letter from Chas. A. 

 Green, Rochester, N. Y., Secretary of the American Nursery- 

 mens Association. 



Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 17th 1891. 

 Minnesota Horticultural Society, Minneapolis, Minn. 



Gentlemen: President Emery and our executive committee are in 

 favor of making the members of your association honorary members of the 

 American association, for the coming year, their names appearing in our 

 badge book on a page by themselves, so as not to conflict with the num- 

 bers of nurserymen. It is understood that the society is to furnish their 

 own badges, if they desire them, you to get up such designs as you deem 

 best; I should not think it would be necessary for them to be numbered 

 at all. 



Mr. Emery informs me that you propose to furnish us with the hall, 

 free of charge. Allow me to suggest that our meeting cannot be success- 

 ful unless the hall is absolutely quiet, and that is very difficult to secure 

 in any city, but this is the main thing to be looked after. Will you kindly 

 write me, stating whether it is possible to get a quiet hall, where the 



