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30 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
RECORD OF SUMMER MEETING. 
Pursuant to notice, the summer meeting was held at the Ex- 
periment Station, St. Anthony Park, July 10, 1891. An unusu- 
ally large number, about seventy-five, were present, and the 
exhibition of flowers, fruits, and vegetables was unexpectedly 
fine. The forenoon of the day was occupied in examining the 
buildings and grounds of the Experiment Station, in social con- 
verse, and in interchange of friendly greetings. 
At the noon hour the members gathered around the picnic 
board and discussed a very interesting lunch, including most of 
the varieties of fruit on exhibition. 
Atone o’clock p. m., the formal summer meeting of the society 
was called to order by the president, Wyman Elliot. 
J. O. Barrett, from Brown’s- Valley, Secretary of the State 
Forestry Association, read the following paper. 2 
CLAIMS OF THE FORESTRY EXHIBIT AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. 
J. O. BARRETT, BROWNS VALLEY. 
Although forestry and horticulture are inseparable in uses, it is bet- 
ter that each organization work on its special line. We who are members 
of both have so determined. We should therefore plan for the success of 
both at the World’s Fair. In a popular sense forestry is the weaker of 
the twins: it’should therefore in justice have some extra attention from 
the sister that is stronger, and that has so faithfully carried her brother 
in her fostering arms. At least the Horticultural Society should relin- 
quish to forestry all that legitimately belongs to it. Allow me to define 
where I think the line of distinction should be drawn as to what is for- 
estal and what horticultural: 
| By forest flora I mean not only timber trees for timber purposes, but all 
trees that naturally grow in and belong to the native forest. This is not 
all. The shrubs, vines, flowers, grapes, ferns, ‘‘ Reeds and rushes, O,” and 
all other wild vegetations that live in companionship with forested trees 
belonging in the category of forest flora, should be handed over to the 
Forestry Association, The horticultural fruit plants had their origin in 
the forest, or were the derivitives of the wild. Culture has developed the 
“fittest.” Horticulture is entitled to all the cultivated plants and fruits 
for exibition, but nothing wild from Minnesota. There now! IMorticul- 
ture is the more exalted, more advanced, more enriched phase of forest 
flora. I will concede to her the right to Eden occupancy, and there she 
must stay and not steal anything that the nymphs and naiads possess in 
the native woods outside. Let mistress horticulture be modest and hon- 
est; she has no chance for glorification over the wild and native so long 
as her highness has to fall back to first germinal principals when her 
civilizing process has educed diseased conditions. 
If now we understand each other, let me in brief outline the forestry 
exhibit at the World’s Fair. We propose to have specimens of all the 
principal timber and ornamental trees of Minnesota, an ample supply of 
each specimen and variety—some in rough blocks, some polished and all 
tastefully arranged. As suggested to me by C. L. Smith, we had better 
