ANNUAL WINTER MEETING. 45 
RECORD OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING 
OF THE 
Minnesota State Horticultural Society, 
HELD AT OWATONNA, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, 
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 20, 
21 AND 22d, 1892. 
FIRST DAY. 
MORNING SESSION, TUESDAY, JANUARY 19. 
Promptly at 10 o’clock the meeting was called to order by 
the First Vice-President, Clarence Wedge, of Albert Laa, 
Minnesota. 
Vice-President Wedge: We have met under rather adverse 
circumstances this morning, being denied the valued services 
of our esteemed president, Mr. Elliot; and also by reason of 
the inability of the Rev. W. R. Weaver to be present with us 
and open our meeting with prayer, according to our usual 
~ eustom. So we shall have to do the best we can under the 
circumstances and proceed to a consideration of the subjects 
contained on our programme. The first subject is that of 
forestry. We would be glad to hear from Mr. J. O. Barrett, 
the chairman of the committee on forestry. 
Mr. J. O. Barrett: Mr. Chairman, before reading the paper 
to which I shall call your attention, I wish to explain that I 
wrote to Mr. E. D. Ensign for the paper which he promised, 
but as he met with an accident and was therefore unable to 
write it, he appealed to his friend Mr. Edward L. Berthoud, 
an engineer, of Golden, Col.—a very scholarly man. 
The following paper was then read by Mr. J. O. Barrett: 
“Climatic Influence of the Rocky Mountains upon the Agri- 
cultural Products of Minnesota and Dakota,” by Edward L. 
Berthoud, Golden, Colorado. (See index. ) 
