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MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



A meetiug of the executive committee was held at 2 o'clock 

 p. M., January 23, 1885, all the members of the committee being 

 present, to-wit: 



Messrs. Harris, Underwood, Elliot, Day and Pearce. 



The following bills were audited and ordered paid: 



Two hundred railroad return tickets $1 50 



Two hundred plates, furnished for winter meetiug 2 00 



A. W. Sias, expenses on seedling committee 10 00 



Mrs. Tillson, expenses and preparing essay 7 50 



C. L. Smith, services as assistant secretary, $5; printing and postage, 



$10.75 15 75 



President T. M. Smith, postage and incidentals 10 00 



J. M. Underwood, executive committee, meeting and postage 5 00 



TotMl $51 70 



The following committees were appointed for the ensuing 

 year: 



Committee on Seedling Fruits — J. S. Harris, La Crescent. 



Committee on Nomenclature — A. W. Sias, Rochester; E. H. S. 

 Dartt, Owatounaj Wyman Elliot, Minneapolis. 



Committee on Forestry — S. M, Emery, Lake City; F. G. Gould, 

 Excelsior; M. Cutler, Sumter. 



Committee on Fruit Blossoms — Q. W. Hall, Minneapolis; George 

 P. Peffer, Pewaukee, Wis.; M. Pearce, Minneapolis. 



Committee on Russian Apples — A. G. Tuttle, Baraboo, Wis. ; 

 A. W. Sias, Rochester; Andrew Peterson, Waconia. 



Committee on Vegetable Gardening — Knight H. Whipple, Nor- 

 thome; Fred. Busch, Richiaeld; W. H. Brimhall, St. Paul. 



Committee on Small Fruit, — ^Prof. L. Asire, Minneapolis; O. M. 

 Lord, Minnesota City; Isaac Gilpatrick, Minneapolis. 



Committee on Floriculture. — Mrs. C. O. Van Cleve, Minneapolis; 

 Mrs. A. Morse, Minneapolis; Mrs. J. F. Rodgers, Lake City. 



General Fruit Committee. — Sidney Corp, Hammond; D. K. 



