STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. OT 
In answer to questions regarding the hardiness of the Pewakee 
and Walbridge, he answered that they had stood through a tem- 
perature of 36° below zero. Thinks the Wealthy as hardy as the 
Duchess of Oldenburgh, and very desirable for Wisconsin and 
Minnesota. 
He remarked that our most reliable resource from which to ex- 
pect hardy apples was in the growth of seedlings. 
Of the long list of so called hardy apple trees he found but very 
few that he could depend on, even at7his sheltered location, at Pe- 
waukee Wis. 
TUESDAY AFTERNOON. 
Uupon motion of Mr. Gibbs, a committee was appointed to pre- 
sent a report on hardy ornamental trees and shrubs. The com- 
mittee as follows: O. Gibbs, R. J. Mendenhall, M. Pearce. 
ADDRESS OF PREST. J. T. GRIMES. 
Ladies and Gentlemen of Minneapolis, Fellow Members of the Minnesota 
State Horticultural Society: At our last annual meeting, you remember our 
great motto, ‘‘Luceat,’’ meaning to light, or may there be light, to lighten as 
the sun, while on the opposite side of the hall hung another motto, which was 
even more than a motto, of exquisite workmanship, composed of the fronds of 
South American ferns, the sentiment of which if properly analyzed would con- 
tain more than volumes in itself: ‘‘Deeds are fruits, words but leaves.’’ This 
rare production of art’s choice handiwork was kindly contributed by Prof. Knerr, 
principal of the high school of Minneapolis. 
As horticulturists let us invoke hight as the governing principal of action in all 
knowledge, science and experience. Knowledge is acquired; it is chiefly learned 
from books, or from the teachings of others, and whether the immediate off- 
spring of discovery, or the legitimate issue of science, it must rest upon facts. 
It is the basis of all intellectual action, the lever of power, and controls air, 
earth, fire and flood, and moves the world. 
In horticulture, it defines the genera of plants. classifying them into families, 
species and sub-species, which in their different genus or natural structure, can- 
not be crossed or hybridized no more than go-betweens, who bushwhack the 
country from year to year, dealing in worthless rubbish false to name. If nurs- 
erymen must send out agents, why not compel them by law to give a written 
guarantee to protect their customers trom fraud, making it a misdemeanor 
amenable to the laws? But the rogues are always out of the way when wanted; 
they never operate in one place long enough for the evidence of their guilt to 
come to light; and while we would be looking for them in Minnesota they would 
be plying their vocation successfully in some other state. How are we to know 
