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Annual Meeting, 1916, Minnesota State Horticultural 



Society. 



A. W. LATHAM, SECY. 



The fiftieth annual meeting of the society has now become 

 history. This gathering was held under most auspicious circum- 

 stances, everything combining apparently to make the meeting 

 one of unprecedented success in the records of the society. Even 

 the weather was favorable for this purpose, being one of the 

 mildest weeks known in the early part of December in this local- 

 ity. The attendance was all and even more than anticipated. 

 The badge book, which represents the notification of those who 

 will be present at the meeting, showed 421 names, of which 

 eighty-three were ladies, that being a somewhat larger number 

 than the badge book of 1915 contained. 



The West Hotel again proved itself to be an ideal place for 

 our annual gathering, with the exception of course that the vari- 

 ous exhibits had to be held in separate rooms, which necessarily 

 interfered with a comprehensive view of what was displayed, 

 thus losing an effect which is of large importance for exhibition 

 purposes. The exhibition, however, was a creditable one, espe- 

 cially the apple exhibit, which filled the two rooms assigned them. 

 There were altogether 499 entries made, of which the larger pro- 

 portion were for apples. A good many seedling apples were 

 shown, many of them new, and three of them were considered 

 of such importance that an effort is to be made to secure scions 

 from them for testing at the fruit-breeding farm and trial sta- 

 tions. The vegetable exhibit, while of excellent quality, was not 

 as large as last year, probably on account of the extraordinarily 



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