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considerable discussion, which was finally ended by Mr. Heide- 

 man declaring that he would introduce a resolution later in the 

 session covering that point. 



The society then resumed the discussion of the above reports, 

 and at the close of same, Mr. C. L. Smith moved the sending 

 of the following telegram to the Nebraska tState Horticultural 

 Society, in session at Lincoln, Nebraska: "Nebraska State Hor- 

 ticultural Society, Lincoln, Nebraska. Minnesota Horticultural 

 Society sends greeting and ice for lemonade. (Signed) M.S.H.S." 



Motion seconded and carried. President Underwood then 

 read a letter of invitation from Mr. and Mrs. Dorilus Morrison, 

 inviting the members of the society to Rose Villa on Friday 

 evening, January 13, 1893. The invitation was unanimously 

 accepted by a rising vote. 



Mrs. J. W. Black well then submitted her report of com- 

 mittee on apiculture {See index.) After the reading Mr. J. 

 P. West of Hastings, president of the State Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation, was introduced to the society by Prof. S. B. Green, 

 and made the following remarks: 



"Ladies and gentlemen: I supposed that this meeting was to be a 

 meeting of the horticulturists and bee-keepers together, and that matters 

 pertaining to both would be discussed. I am not a horticulturist in the 

 full sense of the term, but I am interested in the matter as much as any- 

 body in the state. I have bought fifty acres of land near Hastings and I 

 propose to set out some fruit, and the great question with me is what to 

 set out. I intended to be present at the horticultural meeting so as to 

 hear all the discussion and decide what to do. I have decided among 

 other things to raise some apples. 



There are some questions which interest the bee-keepers and the horti- 

 culturists, and one that I would like to see discussed is this— the time 

 and manner of spraying fruit trees. Now I saw in the last American Agri- 

 culturist, or in next to the last one, that bees were said to be injurious to 

 fruit. A man in Virginia claimed that the bees ate up all his peaches. 

 Now, I claim that every horticulturist should be interested in bee-keeping- 

 that is, be interested so far to desire to have bees enough in his locality 

 to fertilize his fruit. I was talking with a gentleman last November,— 

 the county superintendent of Kittson county,— who is in a locality where 

 he has to fertilize all his cucumbers and squashes by hand in order to get 

 fruit. I suggested to him that he get a swarm of bees. He did so and it 

 proved to be successful. 



Now this matter interests me, as well as the subject of spraying, 

 the time of spraying trees: whether tbe trees should be sprayed 

 before or after the blossoms fall off. I was reading that no apple 

 trees should be sprayed until the blossoms have fallen off, and that 

 fruit with stones, plums, etc., should not be sprayed until the stone is 

 formed, and until the fruit is as big as a pea or something about that 

 size. I hope these matters will be brought up at a proper time. 



