ANNUAL WINTER MEETING. 97 



We commend the plan of offering premiums for members and suggest 

 that the matter he referred to the executive committee with power to act. 



We heartily favor the idea of a permanent home for the society and sug- 

 gest the selection of a special committee of three to take the matter in 

 hand and endeavor to secure such a home, subject to the approval of the 

 executive committee. 



The handbook of horticulture is one of the necessities of the hour and 

 should be published as soon as practicable, and the executive committee 

 should be instructed to take such action as the funds of the society will 

 justify. S. B. GREEN, 



SARA M. MANNING, 

 C. L. SMITH. 



The report was unanimously adopted. 



Mr. C. W. H. Heideman then submitted his report as a 

 delegate to the South Dakota State Horticultural Society. 

 {See index.) 



The annual report of the executive committee being called 

 for, Mr. Wyman Elliot stated that th§ committee had not pre- 

 pared any written report, as they thought the secretary had 

 covered the ground very thoroughly in his report. He said 

 that no meetings of great moment had occurred during the past 

 year, but he hoped the members of the executive committee 

 would be so located in the future that they might be brought 

 together without being put to the expense which they now in- 

 cur when attending the meetings. Mr. Elliot praised the 

 work of the present secretary very highly and said that he left 

 but little for the executive committee to do, as he had taken 

 the burden of the work upon his own shoulders. 



Mr. J. A. Sampson of Excelsior inquired whether the exe- 

 cutive committee had taken any steps toward utilizing Mr, 

 Thayer's proposition made at the last annual meeting, and Mr. 

 Elliot replied that nothing definite had been done, but that the 

 committee would look into the matter the coming year and see 

 what was best to be done, adding that he had no doubt some 

 action would be taken on it. 



Prof. S. B. Green then tendered his report as superintendent 

 of the central experimental stations. {See index. ) The paper 

 was listened to with interest and provoked considerable discus- 

 sion. 



In the course of the discussion, Mr. J. S. Harris of La Cres- 

 cent, moved thg^t the members of the society be requested to 

 send their photographs to the secretary, and that they be kept 

 on file at the society headquarters, including the photographs 

 of the old members of the society who performed work in this 

 line in the past. 

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