52 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Record of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting 



OF THE 



Minnesota State Horticnltnral Society, 



Held at Minneapolis, Minnesota, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs- 

 day AND Friday, January 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th, 1893. 



NOTICE. 



Program of the twenty-sixth aoDual meeting of the Minnesota State 

 Horticultural Society to be held in the Lumber Exchange, corner Fifth St. 

 and Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, Minn., Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 

 and Friday, Jan. 10, 11, 12 and 13, 1893. 



Keep this program for use at the meeting. 



Annual membership fee, $1.00. Life membership, $10.00. Remit to the 

 secretary. 



The ladies are especially invited. 



ANNOUNCEMENT. 



The rapid growth of this society the past year, and the increasing in- 

 terest in horticulture in our state, warrant the expectation that this 

 meeting will be one of unusual interest, and all persons interested in any 

 branch of horticulture, either as amateurs or professionals, are urgently 

 invited to attend and talce part in the proceedings. 



Assurance is received of the presence with us of several prominent hor- 

 ticulturists from abroad, including B. E. Fernow, Chief of Forestry, H. 

 E. "Van Deman, Pomologist, Prof. N. E. Hansen, of Ames, la., and others. 



The program has been prepared with special reference to allowing am- 

 ple time for the discussion of every subject presented, of which a full sten- 

 ographic report will be made for use in the published transactions of the 

 society. 



A liberal premium list has been prepared, to which your special atten- 

 tion is called. The interest of a meeting is much increased by a good 

 exhibit, in making which you are urged to assist. 



Especial interest attaches to this meeting from the fact that the horti- 

 cultural exhibit from this state to be made at the Columbian Exposition 

 the coming season is to be considered, and final arrangements made to 

 secure the full co-operation of the members and the use of all the availa- 

 ble horticultural resources of the state. Minnesota should stand second 

 to no state in the beauty and quality of its horticultural display, and it is 

 our privilege to see that it does not. 



The usual reduction to one and one-third railroad fare has been secured, 

 which will be available, however, only in case one hundred persons attend 

 who hold receipts or certificates showing that they have paid full fare to 

 the place of meeting. Do not forget, then, in purchasing ticket to call for a 

 certificate from the agent showing that you have bought a full fare ticket 

 to the meeting of this society. 



