St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-18
The Twenty-First Annual Meeting Of
the Minnesota State H0rticult-
ural Society
Now In Session at Market Hall With
the State Amber Cane
Association.
Interesting Papers BY Various Gentle
men--The Standing Committees
Notes and Gossip.

ciety opened at Market hall yesterday
with nearly all of the old members of
the society present. The morning sesr
sion was devoted to arranging exhibits
and receiving delegates. President Ell
lott announced the following commit
tees for the ensuing year: =,
Fruit List. 5. Harris, La Crescent; A. W.,
Sias, Rochester; NJ. Fierce, Minneapolis.
Premiums-O. f. Brand, Faribault; M. j.
Hoag, Rochester; Ditus Day. Pennington.
Publications.. ID. Hillmann, Minneapo-
lis; Col. j. Ii. Stevens, Minneapolis.
ReSOlutiOns-COl. j. Ii. Stevens, A. w. SlaS.
G. w. Fuller, Litchfield.
Obituary.. ). Harris, c. L. Smith, Mime
apoiis; s. b. Hillman.
THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
There was large attendance III the
afternoon, when the hall was one vast
garden of budding and blooming flow
ers. Judge Isaac Atwater delivered the
address of welcome, and pleasing one
it was. cit is with pleasure" said he.
that we welcome you to this city, and
for myself hope you will not take this
as merely an expression OF courtesy, as
L know of no association that | would
rather have meet here than yours. A
short time ago large amount of money
was spent in trying to get one of the ma
tiOnal conventions held here, and am
free to say that in my belief had the
same amount of money been handed to
your society the results would have
been much greater. You gentlemen
have proven that all kinds of grain can
be grown here, where thirty years ago
it was thought that nothing but the
cOarsest kinds would grow. In conclu-
sion allow me again to bid you welcome
to Minneapolis"
The response was made by E. n. S.
Dartt, of OwatOnna, who said that he
felt sure that Minneapolis was sincere
in extending hearty welcome to the
society. At the conclusion of this adj
dress reports from the various societies
were read and discussed. Reports were
received from the Horticultural societies
of Hennepin county, theOlmsted county,
the Minnesota valley, the Lake Side. the
Mcleod county and the Ramsey county
Horticultural societies. c. l.. Smith, of
Minneapolis, made a report of the work
of the State Forestry association. He
spoke in particular of the careless way
in which small trees were fixed up to
ship and in planting. Forestry, he said,
to be successful must be the prOtege of
the state. 1t is the duty of the state to
take the matter in hand. If this is not
done the next few generations will see
our beautiful state entirely destitute of
timber. European countries are now
taking the matter in hand, and there is
no reason why this country should not
do the same. The speaker recommend
ed that the appropriation for forestry be
increased, and that every method be
used to induce the planting of timber
belts, wind breaks aid the like.
Experimental Stations-Their Scope
and Usefulness" was the subject of an
interesting paper presented by E. H.
S. Dart, of Owatonna. The main OBJ
ject, he said, was to secure the best re-
suits at the smallest expense. The way
to do was to make successes of failures!
The cultivation of trees was a particu-
larly important experiment and should
be looked into very carefully. A short
discussion followed, during which sew
eral members announced themselves as
opposed to these experimental Stations.I
The general idea was that these stations
should be called fruit stations. Several
gentlemen thought there should be an
experimental station in every county IN
the state, say one man to have charge
of seeding apples, another of straw
berries, and so on. az
EVENING SESSION.
There was fairly large attendance at
the evening session, when President
Wyman Elliot made his annual address
The past year, he said, had not been
particularly pleasant for all. But that
should make no difference at the present
meeting, for here was where all the cob
webs were to be brushed away. If we
have made failures it is here that we
should tell of them, so that we
may know better next time. We
should be willing to give all the
benefit of the knowledge we
have gained during the past year.
The speaker advised an early education
in fruit raising if person wanted to
succeed. Lack of system was what kept
many hOrticulturists behind in their
erything and everything should be in its
place. The first annual meeting of the
society, which was held twenty
one years ago, at Faribault,
was touched upon at some length, and
the members who had remained in the
society all through these years highly
cOmplimented. Failure is an ever pres
ent factor that attends nearly every bust
ness; so horticulture does not escape.
In order to prevent this we
should most carefully examine
into all our methods. Some
times | wonder, when l see the meth
DDS pursued by some men, that they are
not failing all the time" Mr.. Wyman
considered the subject of market supply
and demand an important one, he said,
and now the business had been so thor
Oughly SyStematiZed that both market
touched upon large number of topics
Interesting to farmers. fruit growers
and hOrticulturiStS, and the address was
we'll received.
NJ. Stubbs,. of Long Lake, was to
have presented a paper on ''Grape
Culture" but was prevented from APP
pearing by sickness. The closing ar
ticle was paper ON "The Tree Ped
dler," by A. w. Sias, of Roches-
ter. The speaker opened his address
by quoting the words of the late DR.. P.
A. Jewell, when you see him coming,
call back your dogs. don't slam the door
in his face, for you may entertain
an angel unawares." The Min
nesOta tree peddler, he said, was gener-
ally an honest man who carried a good
stock of trees. But as rule the farm
ers did not dare purchase of him be-
cause they had been swindled so often,
There is an animal known as
the Southern Tree Dealer" and
he is such a different being
from the tree peddler that there
is no danger of mistaking one for the
other. You may entertain a regiment
of Southern tree dealers without enter
tanning an angel, for there are no angels
among them. Our nurserymen had no
hand in making the law now in force
against fraudulent tree dealing. The law
as it now stands has really crippled the
small nursery establishments all over
the northern half of Iowa, as it letsiin
the big men who can put u p bondssand,
drives honest competition out of the
state. l am informed that nurserNmen
all over the country are Disguised with
the Minnesota tree law, and some have
even gone so far as to donate money to
test the legality of the law. 1t strikes
me that the law is oppressive to- the
nurseryman who is poor and cannot put
IN bonds -