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Janesville, Moore’s Early, Worden and Martha; currants, Red Dutch, 
White Grape, Victoria and Long Bunch Holland; gooseberries, American 
Seedling and Houghton. 
The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: For president, 
Hon. H. ©. Warner, of Forestburg; for first vice-president, L. A. Van 
Osdel, of Yankton; for second vice-president, S. S. Wentworth, of Cres- 
paid; for secretary, Prof. Charles A. Keffer, of Brookings; for treasurer, 
Mrs. Mary L. Clark, of Drakola; and also one director for each of the 
ten districts. Mr. George E. Whiting, of Yankton, was elected delegate 
to attend the Nebraska meeting, and Prof. Charles A, Keffer was elected 
delegate to attend this meeting. 
The next annual meeting was voted to be held at Yankton. 
At 12 o’clock M., the meeting adjourned. 
DEWAIN Cook, Delegate. 
REPORT OF DELEGATE TO SUMMER MEETING OF THE WIS. 
STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
J. S. HARRIS, LA CRESCENT. 
The annual summer meeting, and fruit and flower exhibition of the 
Wisconsin State Horticultural Society was held at Kilbourne City, Wis., 
June 23 and 24, and proved the most successful meeting ever held by the 
society. The program was a good one, and filled in the time both pleas- 
antly and profitably. Among the subjects discussed were ‘‘New varieties 
of Strawberries,” ‘‘Horticultural Education, or Teaching Horticulture in 
Public Schools,” ‘‘The Adornment of Home, ‘‘Gardens of Farmers and 
Villagers,” etc. 
The discussion on new varieties of strawberries was opened with the 
reading of a paper by Geo. J. Kellogg, giving descriptions and results of 
tests so far made. But few, if any, varieties fully substantiate the claims 
made for them by originators and introducers, and in the hands of the 
common cultivator many of them prove a delusion; but there are some 
varieties that are fairly good in quality, and so productive and attractive 
in appearance, that they show a marked advance in this most valuable 
fruit, and are destined to supersede many of the older varieties, that are 
now extensively grown for market, such as Crescent, Wilson and Capt. 
Jack. 
The teaching of horticulture in the public schools meets with general 
favor. The successful man will be the one who understands his business, 
and goes about it in earnest. Vegetable physiology, the art of propa- 
gating by seed, layer, bud or graft, setting, pruning and care of plants 
and trees are attractive studies to most children, and they would stimu- 
late the love of the beautiful, as well as fit the coming man for usefulness 
and success. The 
PAPER ON ADORNMENT OF HOME 
by Mrs. Florence A. Brinkman, was an able document, clear, and forcibly 
delivered. No class of people have so good opportunities for beautiful 
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