110 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The secretary read the following report: "Minnesota City 

 Experiment Station," by O. M. Lord, {See index. ) 



President Elliot: If all the friends will come forward we 

 will decide what we are going to do this afternoon. I would 

 like to know how many there are who can stay to an evening 

 session. We can do one of two things, — visit Mr. Mendenhall's 

 greenhouses and Mr. Busch's place, and finish up this evening, 

 or we can forego the pleasure of going out there, and finish up 

 now. 



J. S. Harris : I believe we should not forego such a treat, 

 and we should come back here this evening. I am in favor of 

 having an evening session. 



J. O. Barrett: The committee on forestry wants some points 

 before they are able to report. We had a session this forenoon 

 and came to this conclusion : That the wisest course for us to 

 take is to resurrect the Forestry Association. Our reason for 

 coming to this conclusion is that there is so much business on 

 hand at our annual meeting, covering so large a territory and 

 increasing every year, that it is impossible to give forestry the 

 attention it deserves and requires. Now, under the circum- 

 stances, we would like to recommend as a committee, that we 

 reconstruct the Forestry Association, and with the understand- 

 ing that we co-operate just as earnestly with this body as 

 before. Now, as our president has recommended, either the 

 Forestry Association must be suspended or it must be recon- 

 structed. We are not disposed to act unless this society will 

 approve. Such is the conclusion we have come to, and we 

 think it is the wisest course. 



J. S. Harris: I suggest it would be better to have the For- 

 estry Association reconstructed, put upon a firm basis, come 

 together every year and do such work as we are doing here 

 now. I do not mean to find any fault with what was done, but 

 I would rather have five hundred dollars expended in getting 

 up a meeting to learn the wants and and views of foresters than 

 to have twenty thousand expended in any other way. As far 

 as the work goes it is good, but the experience of men, and the 

 wants of men and the ideas they get in coming together here 

 will do more in one year for reforestation than ten or fifteen 

 years of any other course. 



Prof. Green: I rather think the subject of forestry is of 

 such great importance that it should be considered apart from 

 horticulture, and I would like to see this Forestry Association 

 reconstructed, and upon a firm basis, and take steps to have 



