STATE HORTICUI.TURAL SOCIETY. Ill 



Pursuant to notice the ISth annual meeting of the Olmsted County Horticultur- 

 ■al Society met in this city on the twenty-sixth day of December at 2 o'clock p. m. 



A. W. Sias in the chair. Meeting called to order. Whereupon President Sias 

 read his annual address which was replete with interest and encouragement to the 

 fruit growers of Olmsted County. An interesting and congratulatory letter from 

 S. D. Hillman of Minneapolis, and a highly instructive paper on entomology from 

 the veteran pomologist J. S. Harris of La Crescent, were read by the Secretary. 

 Treasurer's Report. 



Balance of cash on hand January 3, 188.5, $ 9.70 



Received for membership fees 15 50 



$25.20 

 Disbursements, 20.90 



Balance on hand, $4.30 



M. J. HoAG, Secretary and Treasurer. 

 Officers elected for ensuing year: A. W. Sias, President; W. O. Crittenden, 

 Vice-President; M. J. Hoag, Secretary and Treasurer. 



Respectfully submitted, 



M. J. Hoag, Secretary. 



MIJSNESOTA VALLEY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



A report from the Minnesota Valley Horticultural Society being 

 called for, the secretary of the society, A. B. Regester, of Granite 

 Falls, responded and said : 



Mr. Regester. I have no written report, but I will, with your per- 

 mission, give a brief account of our society. A little more than a 

 year ago — I don't know exactly when, and I don't think anybody does 

 — we had a succession of attempts and failures, in regard to the organ- 

 ization of a society at Granite Falls; but about the Mth of February, 

 last year, we succeeded in organizing; we had at that time, I think, 

 twenty-two members About the middle of July we held our first 

 semi-annual meeting. We had quite an exhibition of fruits, beyond 

 what we anticipated, and the interest was considerable; and between 

 that time and the fair in September, our membership had grown, until 

 we had sixty-two members. We have now a membership of sixty- 

 eight. We held our first annual meeting a week ago to-day. We only 

 held one day, three sessions; we had a grand time. We had no 

 exhibits or anything of the kind, but a good deal of interest was mani- 

 fested. 



But I am a little ahead of my story. At the county fair at Granite 

 Falls, we had a horticultural department, the same as at our agricul- 



