and it is most helpful to you. You bring these students in touch with your work, and they have an interest in you.

We hope to have you with us next summer at your annual meeting, as usual. We will ask you to make that your home, and we will anticipate your meeting with a great deal of pleasure.

I want to thank you again in behalf of the School of Agriculture for this very kind invitation and the privilege of occupying this evening. (Applause.)

Reponse. President J. M. Underwood.

Col. Liggett, and Students of the School of Agriculture:

I want to express on behalf of the State Horticultural Society our appreciation of the privilege of having you with us tonight. I have looked to this School of Agriculture as a means of great good that is to be done to the cause of horticulture in this state, and in my annual address to the society on Thursday I mentioned the fact that I looked upon the school as one of the sources from which a great good was to come to the State Horticultural Society, and I feel an interest in it when I think of the great reforms that come through education. Here is an organization second to none, perhaps without an equal in the United States of its kind; I hear it disputed only by some people who live in other states, because they think they have something as good as anybody else, and we cannot blame them. I will let you draw your own conclusions and let them think as they please, but I still think there is nothing in the United States that compares with our School of Agriculture. (Applause.) So I think the horticultural society is to be congratulated in having this strong ally that is coming forward to aid in its future work. The young men and women of the school are certainly enjoying a great privilege. I have watched the work of this school from the beginning, and I have appreciated the fact that many things in my own experience that it has taken years of time to acquire a knowledge of you are able to acquire in a few years. You have the advantage of learning in this school what we had to learn by experience. It has been a tough lesson for us, and I doubt if you ever have a lesson as hard in your experience as we have had. I think as the days and months go by you will appreciate that fact. On the side I have had a little cream through my association with the dairy interests of the state, but in the field of horticulture I find the associations and work which give me the greatest pleasure and claim my deepest interest, and I want to ask all of you that so far as possible you will bring to the State Horticultural Society of Minnesota all the aid that lies in your power, and you will find that you are engaged in a good work and that you are traveling in excellent company. There are none of them that drink, and I do not think any of them swear, they do not use tobacco, and altogether they are a mighty good set of people. (Laughter and applause.) I think you will be pleased to associate with them and take part in their deliberations, and as you grow up with the state I hope you will never leave, and that you will all become enthusiastic members of the State Horticultural Society. (Prolonged applause.)

PROGRAM.

"Evaporation From Dormant Trees." S. O. Tuve, Apple(See index,)

ton.

"Cultivating and Having Home Grown Fruits." Miss M. Rowe, Wells.

"A Little of Everything in Small Fruits." Mr. Cutting, Byron. (See index.)

"Something about the Trees near my Home." Miss M. Denison, Faribault. (See index.)

"A Summer in a Garden." Mr. L. Cady, Buffalo. (See index.)

(See index.)

"Strawberries." R. Hoadlund, Wayzata. The regular program was concluded with the "lantern show" by Prof. S. B. Green, a display of interesting pictures he had taken of scenes in the pines and of the homes and faces of our friends, etc. Appropriate descriptions of the various pictures accompanied them. It was a fitting conclusion of a most happy occasion.

On motion of Secretary Latham, Mr. J. C. Kramer, of La Crescent, was made an honorary life member of the society.

Being called upon, Mrs. Meredith, the preceptress at the School of Agriculture, responded:

Mr. President: I want to congratulate this horticultural society on their courage. While Mr. Allard was going through the indian club exercise it did not strike me as very strange what he was doing, but what impressed me most forcibly was that the people sitting over there appeared to have no fear. Think of the consequences if he had let one of those clubs fly. (Laughter.)

In regard to our school of young ladies, I want to say only this, we have this kind of a time all the time, and if you come over there you will get a share of it. (Laughter and applause.)

Adjourned sine die.

RECORD OF MEETINGS OF EXECUTIVE BOARD FOR 1899.

Dec. 5, 1898. Office of the Secretary, 8 p. m.

All the members were present except Mr. L. R. Moyer. The account of the treasurer for the fiscal year, 1898, showing balance on hand of $320.98, was examined and duly approved. The secretary's account for the period from June 25, 1898, to date, was audited and approved. $422.47.

The secretary was authorized to procure a sufficient number of Wernicke bookcases to equip the office, and a sufficient amount was appropriated to meet the expense.

An appropriation was made of $100 to be used in the purchase of dies and the manufacture of medals to be used in connection with the exhibits of the society, and Messrs. J. M. Underwood, Clarence Wedge and A. W. Latham were appointed to have charge of the expenditure.

Adjourned sine die.

WYMAN ELLIOT, Chairman of Executive Board. A. W. LATHAM, Secretary.

Dec. 9, 1898.

Record of Meeting held at the Court-House, Minneapolis, 6 p. m.

All the members were in attendance. Mr. Wyman Elliot was elected chairman of the board for the year 1899.

A. W. Latham was elected secretary of the society for the ensuing year at a salary of $800.

The salary of the president was fixed at $25, and that of the treasurer at $25.

The standing committees for the year 1899 were appointed, the list being the same as for the preceding year.

The bill for premiums paid at the annual meeting, 1898, was audited and allowed as follows:

....

$132.50

A. W. Latham, Secretary..... The following delegates were elected to represent the society: J. M. Underwood, to Wisconsin; C. E. Older, to South Dakota; R. H. L. Jewett, to Iowa; R. L. Mackintosh, to Illinois.

It was decided to recommend to the society the name of J. C. Kramer as an honorary life member.

In conformity with the action of the society, a committee was appointed to have in charge the awarding of a premium of $1,000 for a seedling apple tree "as hardy and prolific as the Duchess, with fruit equal to the Wealthy in size, quality and appearance and that will keep as well as the Malinda." The following were appointed on this committee: J. M. Underwood, W. W. Pendergast, S. B. Green and A. W. Latham, and they were instructed to prepare rules governing the competition and award.

Adjourned sine die.

WYMAN ELLIOT, Chairman of Executive Board.

A. W. LATHAM, Secretary.

June 21, 1899. Record of Meeting held at the Secretary's office, in Minneapolis.

The following members were present: Wyman Elliot, Chairman, W. W. Pendergast, J. S. Harris, S. B. Green, J. P. Andrews, L. R. Moyer and A. W. Latham.

The secretary's bill for expenses of the society, from Dec. 5, 1898, to date, was audited and allowed:

A. W. Latham, secretary..

$1,116.49

It was decided to recommend to the summer meeting of the society the name of Chas. A. Duncan, of Duluth, as a member of the State Forestry Board.

Adjourned sine die

WYMAN ELLIOT, Chairman of Executive Board.

A. W. LATHAM, Secretary.

Sept. 7, 1899. Report of Meeting held at the State Fair Grounds, Horticultural Building.

Present: Wyman Elliot, chairman, W. W. Pendergast, J. S Harris, S. B. Green and A. W. Latham.

The regulations pertaining to the award of $1,000.00 for an apple seedling were adopted, and the following permanent committee on award appointed;

Prof. S. B. Green, chairman, J. M. Underwood, J. S. Harris, Clarence Wedge and A. K. Bush.

It was decided to hold the next annual meeting in Minneapolis, and Messrs. Elliot, Green and Latham were instructed to prepare the program therefor.

Adjourned sine die.

WYMAN ELLIOT, Chairman of Executive Board.
A. W. LATHAM, Secretary.