96 e ANNUAL REPORT. 
country can show, we make an immigration document that is worth thousands of 
dollars per year to our young empire of the west. Except that thejState publish- 
es our transactions, we are doing all this work on an income of about $68.00 per 
year, and this derived from the membership fees. 
Your secretary respectfully submits whether any business man, doing the 
work that devolves upon the secretary, can afford to do it for the whole annual 
income of the society. He may do it as it is done, but it ought to be better 
done. The secretary's portfolio should be the motive power of the society for 
doing good, and it could be made so through its correspondence, if he could at- 
tend to it. 
These are only preliminary words to the important subject matter. The 
Minnesota State Horticultural society should respectfully ask of its representa- 
tives in the legislature, for at least $500 per year to do business on and a place in 
the capitol to do business in. We want a room with accommodations for our 
books. We want money for experiment, and to distribute the results of our 
experiments and to pay our men for work performed, and your secretary would 
respectfully suggest the appointment of a committee to prepare a bill for or me- 
morial to the legislature now in session. 
The secretary would also like instruction regarding the distribution of the 
published transactions. Shall they be mailed to every applicant, or only mem- 
bers of the association? Your attention is called to another subject. This is a 
Horticultural society not a Nurserymen’s organ. 
It is poor solace to the amateur horticulturist to listen day after day to apple 
talk. We want diversity, or drop our name and call it the Minnesota Pomo- 
logical society—crabs and hybrids. We have not a list of ornamental trees, 
shrubs or plants for lawn decoration. We should encourage everything per- 
taining to landscape architecture, and make it as much a subject for considera- 
tion as anything else. We must hear more from the florists, more from the cul- 
tivators of the annual fora. We must encourage the finer things in our Horti- 
cultural catalogue, to dress wp the dry facts about crabs and hybrids. 
Respectfully, 
U.S. HoiuisTer, 
Secretary. 
The committee on the President’s address of last annual meet- 
ing made their report, which was accepted. Committee dis- 
charged. (This report was not obtained by the secretary; hence, 
not published.) 
The following members were elected as officers of the society, 
for the year ending Jan. 1882: 
President, Joon S. Harris of La Cresent, 
Vice President, 1st Dist., A. W. Stas of Rochester. 
- os 2nd “ §. M. Emery of Lake City, | 
¥ a 3rd “ G. W. Funuer of Litchfield, 
Secretary, U. S. Honrisrer of St. Paul, 
Treasurer, M. L. Tresrrrs of Dover Center. 
