STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 19 



MINNESOTA 



State Horticultural Society. 



TRANSACTIONS 1884-5. 



THE SUMMER MEETING, 1884. 



It slioukl be stated here that no report was received of the 

 proceedings of the summer meeting from ex-secretary Gibbs, 

 and the following report has been prepared from such data as 

 could be obtained from the daily papers and other sources of in- 

 formation. Mr. Gibbs, writing from New Orleans under date of 

 March 28, 1885, states that the report was handed to his clerk 

 on or about February Ith , with directions to be mailed to the 

 secretary of the Horticultural Society, and if not received must 

 have been misdirected; but that he had not preserved the notes 

 from which the report was made up. He says inclosing: "I 

 ;im sorry that absorbing duties here, together with weakness 

 from recent severe illness, prevent me from contributing more 

 to your report for 1885, but I presume you have abundant mate- 

 lial, and will make the rej)ort equal to, and I hope better than, 

 any of its predecessors." 



The call for the summer meeting announced that the session 

 would be held at Market Hall, Minneapolis, on Tuesday and 

 Wednesday, June 24 and 25, 1884, for the exhibition of small 

 fruits, flowers and early vegetables. The public were cordially 

 invited, free entertainment promised to members in attendance 

 V)y the citizens of Minneapolis, and the usual reduced rates upon 

 the railroads to members returning to their homes. 



