104 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The president appointed on that committee J. M. Underwood, 

 C. L. Smith and A. W. Latham. 

 The society adjourned until 7 o'clock in the evening. 



EVENING SESSION. 

 Thursday, Jan. 22, 7 p. m. 



President Elliot: I would say in regard to the paper on 

 ornithology, that Dr. Hatch was sick the 21st of October, the 

 time the secretary wrote to him, and soon after his recovery 

 he commenced the preparation of his paper, and we are in 

 hopes he will yet be able to complete it so we will have it for 

 publication. 



Secretary Green then read a letter from H. E. Van Deman, 

 Pomologist, Washington, D. C. 



Washington, D. C, January 5, 1891. 

 Mr. Samuel B. Green, St. Anthony's Park., Minnesota: 



Dear Sir — Your recent favor accompanying the program of the next 

 meeting of your State Horticultural Society has been received lately. It 

 would be a great pleasure to me if I could accept your very kind and urgent 

 invitation to be present on that occasion, but as you presume, it will be 

 impossible for me to do so. I have made three official trips recently, and 

 have another to make soon and my work is so pressing here in the office 

 that it will be impossible for me to leave here on so long a trip as would 

 be necessary in attending your meeting without doing injustice to my 

 work. 



Of course I feel it a part of my duty to visit your state and I shall cer- 

 tainly do so on the first possible occasion. It may perhaps be best for me 

 to attend one of your summer meetings and see the small fruits and such 

 things in the summer. My present plan is to go there next June or July. 



As to a paper, I am absolutely unable to perpare it, owing to the great 

 amount of work to do here, and the serious illness of my first assistant. 

 Wishing you and the society abundant prosperity, I am 

 Very respectfully, 



H. E. VAN DEMAN, Pomologist. 



The secretary also read a communication from Frank 

 Burnett, of Belmont. Man. 



Belmont, Max., January 16, 1891. 

 Professor Green, Secretary Minnesota State Horticultural Society, St. Anthony 



Park, Minn. 



My Dear Sir:— I have been looking forward to again having the 

 pleasure of being in attendance at the annual meeting to be held on Jan- 

 uary 20, but, unfortunately, press of business will prevent me from being 

 there. If I had anticipated this I should have endeavored to have given 

 my experiences in the horticultural line during the past season, but it is 

 too late to attempt a paper on the subject. I may Bay, however, that on 

 the whole they have been satisfactory and encouraging. For instance I 

 think I may claim the credit of being the first who has succeeded in fruit- 

 ing anything in the shape of a plum in Manitoba, outside of our wild 

 varieties. My De Sotos fruited this season and ripened in good shape. 

 As regards hardiness they without exception open this spring from the 

 terminal buds. 



Trusting that the meeting may be well attended and that the proceed- 

 ings may in a large measure be conducive to the advancement of horti- 

 cultural interests. I am yours truly, 



FRANK BURNETT. 



