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OFFICERS’ REPORTS. 19 
horticultural societies paying one-half of the annual membership 
fee to this society should be entitled to receive the monthly paper 
and a bound copy of the reports,and auxiliary societies, whose 
members belong to this society should have the right to send three 
delegates to the annual meeting with privileges equal to those of 
full paid members. This is similar to the amendment of the consti- 
tution offered by Mr. Wilcox in our report of 1889, page 436, which 
was then adopted. For one, I am willing to extend the franchise of 
membership to delegates from all horticultural societies in our 
state, but not to members of said societies unless they give some- 
thing in return tor our monthly and annual reports. 
The very energetic methods pursued by our secretary has in- 
creased our membership very much; some of this increase comes 
from the free advertising and much from publishing the monthly 
paper, but the largest number from our secretary’s persistant and 
untiring efforts in seeking new members. 
The Minnesota Horticulturist. While this new fledgeling is by 
no means perfect, nor has it filled the fullest expectations of the 
editor, our worthy secretary, it has secured many warm commenda- 
tions from the press and the people of the Northwestern states. 
This was an experiment of which there were some doubts of its 
feasibility at first, but thus far it has been quite successful and 
- meets the wants of the people much better than the issuing of our 
transactions allin one large volume six or eight months after the 
annual meeting. 
There are some features of practical value that have developed in 
the printing of our reports in this monthly form that can be utilized 
to great advantage to our society and its members, with very little 
additional cost, if we should continue its publication in this pres- 
ent form. Through this monthly contact between the secretary 
and our members, there springs up a desire for each to help the 
other in many ways, and it is an easy method of inquiry and ans- 
wer by which all should profit. 
Institute Work. What more can we do as a society to improve 
the horticultural knowledge than to disseminate throughout the 
state our institute work? This question should be freely discussed, 
as suggested by one of our veteran horticulturists. That there is 
room for very much improvement upon the present methods there 
can be no doubt; the question is, how shall we go aboutit and reach 
the desired results economically? There should be a closer unan- 
_ imity of purpose existing between the official members of this so- 
ciety and the institute workers. It has been suggested that the in- 
stitute work should be enlarged by having more workers in the field 
and thus cover more thoroughly the large area of our state—by hav- 
ing, say, three or four corps, each with its separate workers under 
the direction of a conductor, and the whole body governed by one 
superintendent, utilizing local talent whenever the right material is 
available. 
Legislation Needed. Your committee report that a great advant- 
age would be gained to the State Horticultural Society if we could 
have a larger appropriation from the state, so we could afford to 
publish our monthly reports with additional current topics of inter- 
