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have a society to the northwest of us, at Winnipeg. I put here on 

 record the names of all the officers of the Winnipeg organization 

 for future reference, as we may reasonably expect an intimate 

 relation with this society, and when they come to systematic trial 

 of trees and plants to discover adaptations in that region, our 

 northern sections must be largely the gainers by it through this re- 

 lation, and otherwise. 

 It is called the 



MANITOBA FORESTRY AND HORTICULTURAL 



SOCIETY. 



President— J. A. Miller. 



Vice Presidents — Hon. M. A. Girard, Acton Burrows. 



Secretary and Treasurer — Charles N. Bell. 



Directors— W. B. Hall, J. B. McKilligan, Thomas Nixon, R. R. 

 Keith, Hon. A. Gr. B. Bannatyne, J. M. Miner, Asa A. Burnham. 



I have sent them full files of our reports, and the Forestry 

 Association has furnished them with The Tree Planter''s Manual 

 and other publications. 



SOCIETIES OF ADJOINING STATES. 



Since I became Secretary of the Minnesota Horticultural Socie- 

 ty I have labored steadily to obliterate the idea of State lines, as 

 much as possible, in the Horticultural work of all the northwestern 

 states. The system of sending delegates to each other's conven- 

 tions is doing something for this, and the correspondence and re- 

 ciprocal work of the secretaries is doiug still more. It is to this 

 idea that we owe the fact that we are not much behind Iowa in our 

 present awakening to the subject of Russian adaptation of fruit and 

 forest trees and plants, and pretty well up with Wisconsin in the 

 study of fruit blosoms, geological and climatic adaptations. Think 

 a moment, fellow members. Suppose that a year ago Prof. Budd 

 had responded, substantially like this, to my application for his 

 notes on Russia. "Oh no, we cannot do that; your report might 

 get out ahead of ours; we are working for Iowa; Iowa must take 

 the lead, and have the preference; wait and get the facts you 

 want from oi:.r report." What would have been the result? Just 

 one year's delay in spreading the facts before our people. Turn a 

 look inward on your own thoughts now on this subject, and see 

 how far ahead your are, how much your mind has been influenced 



