USE FOR THE PROPOSED HORTICULTURAL BUILDING. 81 



Uses for the Proposed Horticultural Building. 



A. W. LATHAM, SECY. 



In the January, 1917, issue of our monthly there appeared 

 on page 6 an article speaking in regard to the needs of the soci- 

 ety for a home, accompanied by plans and descriptions of the 

 proposed building. The members of the society are fully assured 

 of their needs for such a building, as never in all the fifty years 

 of its life has it had a really suitable place for its annual gather- 

 ings, one which provides a suitable hall for the meeting of the 

 society and an exhibition hall large enough and well enough 



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 arranged so that the exhibition in all of its classes may be 

 installed in a way to impress those who might see it. 



The proposed building, to be located at University Farm, 

 would provide all of these facilities and many more. It would 

 not only be an ideal place for the annual meeting of the society 

 with its large exhibits of all classes of horticultural products and 

 an equally valuable one for its summer gathering with its 

 immense showing of outdoor flowers, but it would provide equally 

 good accommodations for all of its auxiliary societies in connec- 

 tion with their meetings, many of which are held with much 

 greater frequency than those of the state society. The Garden 

 Flower Society holds a number of meetings during the year, 

 alternating between Minneapolis and St. Paul, and with this cen- 

 tral location all of these meetings could be held in the horticul- 



