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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



tural building. The Bee-Keepers hold one or more meetings 

 annually. The Forestry Association one or more, the State Flor- 

 ists Society hold frequent meetings and a number of exhibitions 

 during the year. This midway location would accommodate the 

 florists to a nicety. The Vegetable Growers have lately organized 

 a State Vegetable Society, which would find this building and its 

 exhibition halls a convenient place for their purposes. 



Besides the Horticultural Society and its auxiliaries there 

 are also a large number of other state societies devoted to various 

 branches of agriculture and stock breeding, a dozen or more of 



Ground floor plan of proposed Horticultural Building. 



them, all of which would find a welcome place for gathering in 

 this proposed building. The Farmers Home Week at University 

 Farm, where the building is to be located, would also occupy the 

 halls the building provides, and a variety of other uses would be 

 found for it in connection with the varied interests developing 

 and fostered at University Farm. In fact such a building as 

 this is greatly needed. Nothing of the kind can be found in 

 either of the Twin Cities, and located centrally as this would be, 

 at University Farm, there would undoubtedly be calls for it that 

 would provide rental for other uses than those noted above. 

 Where hundreds of conventions from all over the country meet 

 in the Twin Cities some at least would be especially well accom- 

 modated by such a building in the midway district. 



This matter is now pending before the state legislature, and 

 the attention of our membership is called to it that they may 

 assist in every possible way to secure the enactment of the nec- 

 essary legislation to provide for the construction of the building. 



