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22 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
revenue from this source another year should pay this cost entirely. 
The plan of publication as adopted provided for an issue of forty 
pages per month, equalling 480 pages per year, which, with the 
index, would amount to about 500 pages, the maximum allowed us 
for our report. On account of this including not only the accumu- 
lation of papers and reports for 1893, but also the current reports of 
1894, in pursuance of the purpose to make the magazine the medium 
of carrying to the society the latest news it was found impossible to 
include within this number of pages all the material on hand; and so 
with the proper authority, willingly given, a supplement has been 
published of some fifty pages, including the journal of the last meet- 
ing and a few papers left over. This with the twelve magazines, prop- 
erly indexed, making in all a volume of 538 pages, is the report of 1894 
which I have the honor to present to you on this occasion. 
In following out the plan as provided, this volume has been sent 
to all the life and honorary members, and will be sent to all annual 
members for 1895 as fast as the membership fee isreceived. The fee 
of our society being payable in advance, and our magazine being 
the report of the society, it also is to be sent only to those who have 
or do hereafter become members of the society. 
In considering the future ot our magazine, which we believe has 
come to stay, the serious question that confronts us is a convenient 
method of publication. For the ensuing year, the public printing 
of the state is to be done in St. Paul by the Pioneer Press Co. With 
the library as at present located in Minneapolis, this change will 
necessarily result in considerable inconvenience. If the amount 
which is being expended in the printing of our report could be 
turned over to the society as a printing fund it would enable us to 
increase the size of the magazine so as to include extracts from 
other reports and the horticultural journals of the day,as well as 
current horticultural news, and we should still be able to bind for 
our membership and others as many voluines as are desirable. To 
bring about this change would require an act of the legislature,and 
to the grave importance of this I would respectfully invite your at- 
tention. ’ 
The publication of the magazine made at once necessary some per 
manent office, and the rapidly increasing library still further em- 
phasized the necessity. A comfortable and convenient room has 
the past year been occupied in the Kasota block, an office building 
in Minneapolis, ata monthly rental of $12,a very low rental consid- 
ering the circumstances. The accumulation of material in the 
library from receipts of exchanges, some fifteen monthly or semi- 
monthly periodicals, which are now being received, the annual re- 
ports of kindred societies and other horticultural material contrib- 
uted to the shelves of our library is rapidly swelling its dimen- 
sions, and the time is not far off when even larger accommodations 
will be required. I know we look forward to the day, which we hope 
is not too distant, when this society may be the possessor ofa 
home of its own, with suitable office, library, reading room anda 
hall for its annual gathering. This is an object well worth bearing 
in mind, and towards which we should bend every energy. 
