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went up there, aud with our hands we pulled out the trees putting 

 them into bundles and packed about twenty thousand Arbor Vitae 

 during the day; at six o'clock at night I had thera on the train. I 

 came down to Moose Lake station, switched off there for the night. 

 The next piorning we hitched to a hand-car, got a man to run me up 

 to the swamp, where I got about three thousand balsam and spruce; 

 arriving home with the trees the next morning. I had over twenty 

 thousand trees. Instead of planting those trees as many do when 

 they get forest trees, I placed them just as close as I could, right along 

 in rows, about four or five inches apart; some oF them were three or 

 four inches, and from that up to a foot high. We kept them in water 

 all the time, and after they were packed in that shape, we drove stakes 

 in the ground, had strips of boards and poles fastened or arranged in 

 such a manner as to keep the trees moist all summer. I let those 

 evergreens stand there for two years. When I transplanted them I 

 didn't lose five per cent. I have some of the trees out here at my 

 place, that are fifteen to eighteen feet high. Some of the Arbor Vitae 

 that I got are left yet, five or six feet high, and are njce evergreens. 

 That is the way I handled them, and that is the way I got them. 



President Smith. I wish to say in regard to transplanting large 

 trees, that I do not advocate the setting out of large evergreens; 

 while it can be done, I certainly would set small trees every time, of 

 both the deciduous trees and evergreens. 



On motion, the meeting adjourned until Thursday morning at nine 

 o'clock. 



THIRD DAY. 



Thursday Morning, January 21, 1886. 



The meeting was called to order at nine o'clock by President Smith. 

 The Annual Report of the Secretary was then read : 



THE SECRETARY'S ANNUAL REPORT. 



Mr. President and Fellow Members: 



In presenting this our first annual report as Secretarj^ of the Minnesota State 

 Horticultural Society, you must be congratulated upon the very auspicious circum- 

 stances that surround us, not only as members of this Society but as citizens of this 

 great and growing commonwealth: upon the material advancement and prosperity 

 which have characterized our labors, and the goodly degree of happiness which it 



