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from where they were raised must either become acclimated first 
or be more liable to destruction. 
Mr. Fuller offered this substitute: ‘‘ From such establish- 
ments as the Heikes Nursery, of Dayton, O.,’’ but it ‘* was not 
accepted. ”’ 
The Secretary moved, as a substitute, that the committee be 
continued and requested to confer with the executive committee 
as soon as possible. The motion was seconded but lost. 
Mr. Storrs. Think it would be good to have every member 
publish these resolutions in his home paper. 
The Secretary. I object to using names. I notice in the pro- 
ceedings of other societies, all personal remarks are avoided. 
Don’t want to get in too deep. 
Pres. Grimes. Deep or shallow, I am apposed to personalities. 
The report of the committee was carried with above amend- 
ments unanimously. 
WueErReEAsS, Many of our people have, through the representations of 
unscrupulous nursery agents and tree dealers, been induced to purchase 
fruit trees, shrubs and plants at fancy or exorbitant prices; and 
WuEREAS, We have the most conclusive evidence that scarcely one tree 
or plant in a hundred thus sold survives this climate longer than one year, 
and such as do survive prove not true to variety and of very uncertain value ; 
and 
Wuereas, These uoscrupulous dealers by this system of swindling are 
destroying public confidence by their wide spread sale of spurious and 
worthless trees at runious prices, greatly to the injury of both tree plant- 
ers and the nurserymen of our own State, 
THEREFORE, We, the members of the Minnesota State Horticultural 
Society, feel it our duty to issue this preamble and resolutions. 
Resolved, That*we condemn the practice of purchasing Russian and other 
untried varieties of trees and plants at fancy prices. 
Resolved, That all nurserymen who send out agents, should in all cases 
expect to be fully and strictly responsible for all the representations, and to 
fully meet all the contracts made by such agents. 
Second. That tree planters should, as a means of protection, demand of 
all who may solicit their orders for trees, unquestionable proof that they 
are the authorized agents of some reliable nurseryman, who grows his own 
stock, and that such nurseryman will hold himself strictly responsible for 
all the representations of such agent. 
Third. That tree planters may reasonably look for all things that will 
succeed in this climate in the hands of the leading nurserymen of the State 
rather than in the hands of irresponsible traveling canvassers and tree 
peddlers, and that it may be taken as prima facie evidence of fraud when 
‘scarcity or extraordinary qualities of excellence are claimed for them, or 
when for the same alleged cause exorbitant prices are demanded for them. 
Fourth. That the annual published Transactions of the Minnesota State 
Horticultural Society contain the experience of the best fruit growers of 
