STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 97 
EX. COMMITTEE. 
T. M. Smith St. Paul, 
Wyman Eliot, Minneapolis, 
J. M. Underwood, Lake City, 
D. W. Humphery, Fairbault. 
F. T. Gould, Excelsior, 
Vice Pres. Miss. Valley Horticultural Society, and representa- 
tive to that body, J. T. Grimes, Minneapolis. 
Delegates to State Agricultural Society, U. 8. Hollister, A. W. 
Latham, J. M. Underwood, John H. Stevens, Wyman Elliot. 
Committee on Russian apples discontinued; Committee on Seed- 
ling apples continued, same as last year. 
Delegate to Wis. State Horticultural Society, C. H. Greenman, 
Upon motion it was decided to hold next annual meeting at 
Minneapolis, beginning third Tuesday m January, 1882. 
It was decided to hold a summer or autumn meeting at Lake 
City, and a committee to call the same, with all authority to 
arrange, appointed as follows: O. Gibbs, Jr.,S. M. Emery, J. M. 
Underwood. 
The report delegate J. T. Grimes, of the Miss. Valley Horticul- 
tural Exhibit at St. Louis was read and ordered published. 
REPORT OF DELEGATE TO THE MEETING OF THE MISSISSIPP! VALLEY HORTI- 
CULTURAL SOCIETY, AT ST. LOUIS, SEP'T., 1880. 
The grand exhibition of the Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society was held 
in the Merchants’ Exchange in the city of St. Louis, on the 7th, &th, 9th and 
10th of September, 1880. 
The exhibition opened without any marked demonstrations from the presence 
of city officials or other dignitaries with set speeches to give eclat to the proceed- 
ings, depending on its merits alone for patronage. 
On entering the hall, the first object to attract the eye of the visitor was the 
magnificent pyramid of apples, representing the Egyptian obelisk recently 
brought to New York. ‘The pyramid was a fac simile of the original, but only 
half the size. Itstood over 40 teet in height above the base, requiring 32 barrels 
of apples in its construction. The design was chaste and beautiful in its sim- 
plicity. 
The band of music occupied the platform behind a grove of beautiful exotic 
and native plants which almost concealed them from view. The hall through- 
_ out was profusely decorated, and in the center was a fountain arrayed in floral 
designs. Regarding the display of fruit, it must be said that the exhibition was 
complete. 
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