TEN FIVE MINUTE PAPERS. Tools for the Vegetable Grower, Wm. Mackintosh, Langdon. Franklin De Cou, St. Paul. Melons for Market, H. C. Ellergodt, Lanesboro. J. C. Walker, Rose Creek The Melon Peach and its Possibilities, Mrs. A. G. Long, Excelsior. General Subjects-Election of Officers, Women's Auxiliary, Flowers, etc. Intermission of ten minutes. 3 P. M.-Annual Election of Officers. Town and Village Improvement, Mrs. SEVEN FIVE MINUTE PAPERS. Mrs. L. A. Danforth, Red Wing. Renew your membership with the secre- Native Plants for Ornamental Purposes. Prof. D. Lange, St. Paul. tary. General Subject-Apple Seedlings. Announce the Annual Session of the Women's Auxiliary of the Minn. State Hort. Society, at 10:00 a. m. ELEVEN FIVE MINUTE PAPERS. The Apple Seedling in the Development of a Local Pomology, Prof. S. B. Green, St. Anthony Park. R. H. Buttermore, Lake City. Geo. R. Miller, Richland. 10:30-Ten Minutes Intermission. My Apple Seedling, J. H. White, Crystal. A. J. Philips, West Salem, Wis. Edson Gaylord, Nora Springs, Ia. General Subject-The Minnesota Ap- TEN FIVE MINUTE PAPERS. H. M. Benton, Minneapolis J. A. Howard, Hammond. E. H. S. Dartt, Owatonna. F. W. Kimball, Austin, 3:30 o'clock-Ten Minutes Intermission. Top-working the Minnesota Orchard, D. F. Akin, Farmington. C. W. Merritt, Homer. F. C. McMullen, Mpls Cold Storage Co. of 1,000 trees, Wyman Elliot, Mpls. Report of Committee on obituaries and 4:00 P. M.-Two minutes speeches by the members. 4:30 P. M.-Closing remarks by the presi dent. PREMIUM LIST. All exhibits must be entered with the secretary and in place the first day of the meeting to be entitled to compete for premiums. • Exhibitors competing must be members of this General Subject-Program by the Uni- society and the growers or makers of the articles versity Farm School, arranged by Prof. S. B. Green, Horticulturist. Music, papers, addresses and other To conclude with a stereoptican enter- Prof. S. B. Green. exhibited. The articles exhibited must have Each exhibit of fruit must consist of four speci- Collection APPLES AND CRABS. 3d. 1st. 2d. Each variety exhibited included in .75 .50 3.00 2.00 1.00 4.00 2.00 Single rose in bloom. 1.00 Single geranium in bloom. ..... 1.00 Single begonia in bloom. 1.00 Single carnation in bloom. 1.00 Collection of cut roses.. 2.00 1.00 Collection of cut carnations. Basket of flowers. 2.00 1.00 Dealers in horticultural implements and appliances are invited to place them on exhibition. Secretary's Corner. DEATH OF MRS. ANNIE BONNIWELL.-Late press dispatches announce the death at her home in Hutchinson, in November, of this most estimable lady. She had been out of health for some years, and last year did not attend our annual meeting, though prior to that for a good many years she had been regularly present. Her absence from our gatherings will be noted with sadness by the many friends she has made in our ranks. No particulars as to her death are at hand at the time of writing. Prof. Green A SECRETARY.-A' new honor has been thrust upon the professor by making him secretary of the society composed of horticulturists and botanists of the various experiment stations of the country. DELEGATE TO N. E. IOWA HORT. SOCIETY.-Our society will be represented at the annual meeting of this society by Mr. J. C. Hawkine, of 'Austin, who is at present president of the So. Minn. Society. This meeting convenes at McGregor, Nov. 29, 30 and Dec. 1st. HAVE YOU PAID YOUR MEMBERSHIP FEE FOR 1899?-With the programs for our annual meeting, recently sent out, went a card to be used in renewing membership in the society. You are urged to give this early attention. Fill out the card and enclose with one dollar to the secretary. DELEGATE FROM IOWA STATE SOCIETY.-Elmer Reeves, of Waverly Ia., will represent the state society at our coming meeting. Mr. Reeves is a nurseryman and especially well known to us for many years as secretary of the Northeastern Iowa Society. An engraving of him and a short sketch of his life was published in our monthly two or three years since. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF IOWA STATE HORT. SOCIETY.-This meeting will be at the rooms in the Capitol, at Des Moines, Dec. 13-16. The program contains eighty-six numbers, with enough variety to satisfy any one. The committee preparing it have adopted in a measure the plan of preparing a number of five-minute papers on one topic. It will give them satisfaction, as it has us. ANNUAL MEETING N. W. IOWA HORT. SOCIETY.-The program for this meeting, which takes place Dec. 6-8 at Carroll, Ia., is received, and it is a good one. We have never to the writer's knowledge had a delegate from that society at our annual gatherings, but we surely ought. A letter from Vice-President M. E. Hinkley gives as a reason for not coming that their meeting is at the same date as ours. Bring Your Fruit to our MEETING.-There will be the usual show of fruit on this occasion, much of which is already in cold storage in Minneapolis, but do not forget to bring specimens of anything you may have keeping in your cellars to help out the exhibition. More space will be allotted to this exhibit than heretofore, and there will be room for all. Bring especially the seedling apples. THE WOMEN'S AUXILIARy to the MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.--The conception of this organization, which was perfected at the last summer meeting of our society, originated with Mrs. Anna B. Underwood, the wife of our honored president, or with her husband or with both, the writer does not know which. The ultimate purpose is to make the women helpful in the work of the state society, especially in the development of certain fields in which their sex has a more natural interest, and these will occur to any reader. They will hold a meeting during the session of the state society,as noted in the program, and hope to get their work in shape to bring about practical results: The membership is, of course, open to all women, and they are urged to be present on Friday forenoon at 10 o'clock (on Dec. 9th), the time set, and identify themselves with the organization. Mrs. Underwood will be very glad to receive communications from any one in the meantime, or answer any questions in regard to the work of the society, and suggestions as to the best methods and kind of work to be done will be especially welcome. Address her at Lake City, and don't forget to come to the meeting. GREEN'S "FORESTRY IN MINNESOTA."-This new work, by Prof. S. B. Green, to which reference was made in the November number, is now completed and ready for distribution. Paper covered copies can be had free upon application to the secretary of the forestry association, Geo. W. Strand, of Taylor's Falls, Minn., though it is likely applicants will be expected to advance the postage, 5 cents. The book is of the same size as the works on fruit and vegetable growing by the same author, and contains 312 pages. The first 126 is devoted to a practical treatise on the art of forestry, covering almost every branch of the subject in a very complete way; the remainder contains full descriptions of the trees and shrubs growing in Minnesota, with many apt illustrations showing leaves, buds, flowers and fruit of the varieties being considered. While prepared especially for the class room at our State Agricul tural College, the work is not too technical for practical use by any one, and is as well adapted to the prairie as to the forested regions of the state. In fact, it is too good a book to give away, and in order that each of our members may have a copy in good shape for preservation and reference we have had a quantity bound in strong cloth, for sale at 50 cents each, or they will be given to our members as premiums for securing new members to the society. A few minutes taken to secure a new member will be doubly repaid by a handsome copy of this very useful book. Annual Meeting. December 7-10, 1897. JOURNAL OF THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, HELD IN MINNEAPOLIS, AT THE COURT-HOUSE, DECEMBER 7-10, 1897. (For program of this meeting see page 481, Report of 1897). The annual meeting of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society convened in the rooms of the county commissioners of Hennepin county, at 10 o'clock, on the morning of December 7th. TUESDAY FORENOON SESSION. The meeting was called to order by President Underwood, who opened the meeting with the following brief remarks: Fellow Members of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society: -It is necessary to again take up our work for another year. For the thirty-first time we commence the annual meeting of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society. I need not say, perhaps, to me it is a great pleasure to meet you here, to meet the old friends I have not met for a year, and to make new acquaintances. I wish you to observe this rule in our society, and that is, while you are with us I want you to feel perfectly at home and feel as though you were a part of the association and free to take an active part in all of our deliberations. We like to have every one feel perfectly at home here and free to express themselves on all topics we may have under consideration, and free to impart any information they may possess that may be of benefit or of interest to any of the other members. I think this is the spirit that has always prevailed, although I have somehow thought that sometimes people came into the meetings who felt a little diffident about making themselves prominent in our discussions, and they did not know how much good they might do by making themselves a little more familiar. We have not a very large representation with us this morning, but I trust they may increase in numbers as the meeting goes on, and I trust we shall have a good many ladies to take part with us, and that they will feel at home with us, and feel as though they had a perfect right to take a prominent part in our society. I do not know |