210 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
A paper which seemed to please the audience was read by Miss 
Lulu Philips, of West Salem, on ‘Horticulture in Connection 
with our Common Schools.” She was invited, by a resolution, 
to read the same paper at Madison at next winter’s meet- 
ing. Mrs. Campbell, our ex-treasurer, who has read so many 
excellent papers to our society, again favored us with one on 
‘“Why Women Should be Interested in Horticulture.” The 
health, pleasure and profit of the business were ably presented. 
Mrs A. S. Roberts read a paper entitled ‘‘ Chronicles, Second 
Chapter.” It was well prepared and alluded to many of the 
citizens in a pleasing way. 
President Kellogg gave some valuable suggestions to those 
present on the handling and marketing of small fruits. The 
large acreage in the vicinity of his home at Ripon being nearly 
all handled, shipped and sold by their fruit growers’ associa- 
tion, thereby insuring better prices and a better grade of ber- 
ries. The secretary read an old story under a new name, the 
“Commandments of Apple Growing,’’—the principal points be - 
ing that if you desire to raise apples you must select good soil 
and location, buy the best trees possible and then plant a few 
trees every year as sure as spring comes. The subject of irri- 
gation was discussed by Mr. E. Wolcott of Sparta, who has a 
plantation of about three acres of small fruits which he has 
successfully irrigated with an artesian well. 
The show of strawberries was excellent when one considers the 
fact that the cry from all over the state after the severe frosts 
of May 11th, 12th and 13th was, ‘‘strawberries and grapes all 
killed.”” The Thayer fruit farm,of Sparta,secured the first pre- 
mium on best collection and G. J. Kellogg,of Janesville,second. 
One noticeable feature of the exhibit was that a smart old 
gentleman named Tennant, who only lacks a few weeks of be- 
ing ninety years old, picked a nice quart of both Warfield and 
Haverland himselfand brought them to the meeting and received 
the first premium on both. The show of flowers and roses was. 
fine. Mr. Kellogg, of Janesville, secured first on collection and 
on moss roses. Mr. Scott, of Grand Rapids, secured first on 
house plants, and Mrs. Townsend second. Their plants were 
fine. A Mrs. Jones showed some beautiful white roses, The 
show of vegetables by Mr. A. S. Robinson was fine, and,though 
he had no competition, it was well worthy of a premium. The 
general verdict was that all present had a good time. Reso- 
lutions thanking the citizens of Grand Rapids and the local so- 
ciety for courtesies shown, also to officers of state society for 
