36 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
ANNUAL WINTER MEETING. 
PROGRAM OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING 
OF THE MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
TO BE HELD IN OWATONNA, MINN., TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, 
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 20, 21, AND 22, 1892. 
By invitation this, the quarto-centennial meeting of our soci- 
ety, is to be held in the city of Owatonna. 
Located at the crossing of the C. & N. W. R’y, running east 
and west, and the C. M. & St. P. R’y, running north and south, 
and about 70 miles south of Minneapolis, this place is very ac- 
cessible for such a gathering. 
The citizens of Owatonna extend to our society their hospi- 
tality and all delegates and members in attendance will be en- 
tertained by them free of expense. 
As the societv has increased in membership during the past 
year over 50 per cent. and the interest in horticulture both as 
a pursuit and a recreation is rapidly increasing, a meeting of 
unusual profit may be expected. 
The twenty-fifth annual gathering, marking the close of a 
quarter century since the organization of the society, makes it 
an anniversary, a point at which to pause and, reviewing our 
achievements and failures take new courage for the work. It 
is hoped that at this meeting the members will be present in 
full force and especially those who, now in the decline of life, 
having borne the heat and burden of the day, have the more 
right to celebrate this re-union, assist in the review, and lend a 
hand in dedicating the society anew to its career of usefulness. 
The usual reduction to one and one-third rate for the round 
trip has been made by most of the railroads in the state. To 
avail themselves of this reduction, persons must call for a ticket 
to the horticultural meeting at Owatonna at the depot of de- 
parture and obtain a certificate thereof, and this must be done 
at all depots of connecting lines where tickets must be bought. 
These certificates, when signed by the secretary of the society 
