St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-19
The State Horticultural Society Closes
lis Winter Meeting.
PRIZE ESSAYS AWARDED.
Papers and Discussions on Tree Culture
and Seeding Fruits---The Closing
Incidents.

CuituICs
Ell. S. Dart. Of Owatonna, read a
paper on apple Protection; Theory
and Fact" that for practical hard sense,
combined with the valuable facts the
gentleman has derived from sclentihc
has been eXcelled by no
previous paper. The subject was ably
discussed by several of the members.
Mr.. BarIett's resolution on hortlcult-
ural institutes was once more taken up
and discussed. The question was in re-
gard to the $1,000 appropriation they
were to ask of the legislature. 1t was
finally referred to the legislative COM
mIttee.
G. S. Smith was called on for a report
on the State Forestry association and
gave full account, with obserVatlOnS
he had himself made in forestry. Mr..
Terry. of Slayton. followed by a paper
on the same subject. A thorough dis,
Gu sion followed on wind-breaks ana
timber trees for the Northwestern
plains.
A. NJ. Lyons, Of Minneapolis. read an
interesting paper on strawberries.
j. M. Underwood, OF Lake Guy, was
next to come to the speakers stand:
His paper was on seeding fruits ana
was followed by a talk on the same
topic. The two gentlemen awakened
quite discussion, at the close OF which
the meeting adjourned until the after
noon session.
THE AFTERNOON SESSION
began with discussion in regard to the
Seeding committee. G. W. Fuller. of
I,itchtield. because of some exception
taken to his report Thursday by 0. f.
Brand, of Faribault. offered his reslgna-
ton from the committee. After several
keen illusions and lntimations of hid
den hard feeling, it was voted that the
whole committee, consisting OF +. w:
Fuller. of Litchfield, A. w. Slas, or
Rochester, and John S. Harris, OF La
Crescent, remained as it was.
A committee was voted to be appolnt-
ed to assist the seeding committee, thls
being one of the recommendations OF
the presidents address.
President Elliot next called on sew
eral of the members who had visited
the State School of Agriculture i'll the
morning, and they responded with
hearty Communications of the school and
the work that was being done there. 1t
was evident that Prof. Pendergast and
Prof. Porter had known that they had a
surprise for their visitors when they IN
yited them, and had not been dlsap-
pointed in their expectations.
REPORTS were next listened to from
governmental stations. Prof s. b. Green,
OF St. Anthony Park, gave the particu-
lars of his work during the past year. as
well as advice and valuable Instruction
on horticultural subjects. A. W. Sias,
of Rochester, and G. W. Fuller, OF
Litchfield. both gave interesting reports;
C. l.. Smith took advantage OF lull
in the exercises to highly commend the
action of S. M. Emery. of Lake City. IN
reducing the rates of nursery goods. He
was given vote Of thanks by the meet
ing for the action in the matter. Quite
a discussion followed in regard to
freight and freight rates for trees and
fruits.
On the motion of Col. J. II. Stevens
C. l.. Smith was e,ected as one OF the
delegates to the Wisconsin HORTICULTURAL
society's annual meeting, to be held at
Madison next week.
L. ii. Wilcox, of Hastings, chairman
of the committee on membership, after
some opposition succeeded in convlnc-
ing all the members that the report they
offered making the local associations
auxiliary to the state association. and
by other means offering inducements for
membership, was for the best, and 1t
was UNANIMOUSLY adopted.
j. o. Barrett. of Browns Valley,
chairman of the committee on final res
OlutiOnS, read a report very graceful'y,
thanking citizens of Minneapolis. the
railways. the visitors and delegates in
general, and especially to Prof. Raglan.
{n IF tho Twin
Cities.
Prof. Raglan made happy speech.
returning his thanks and expressing the
value the meeting had been to himself.
A resolution was offered by }. NJ. U n
derwood, of Lake City, offering the
rame of j. S. Woodward. of Albany, N.
Y, to be recommended by the society
for commissioner of agriculture. Col.
]. Il. Stephens thought Western man
should be recommended, and offered
the name of Prof. Raglan, of Green
castle, Ind. G. II. Smith thought that
M4nnesota should not go back on her
own delegate. William La Due. of
Hastings, and the society seeing there
was likely to be muddle dropped the
whole affair, recommending no one.
THE PRIZE ESSAYS.
J. T. Grimes, chairman of the COM
mittee on essays on "Orcharding in
Minnesota" reported that the commit
tee was urable to decide between the
essays of Archie Brand, of Faribault,
and Edward Dias. of Hastings. and
moved that the prize of S25 be divided
between the two and the motion was
carried. The best essay on "Cur-
rants and Gooseberries in Min
nesota' was credited to Norton F..
Brand. of Faribault. John Lyons. of
Minneapolis had the prize essay on
'sStrawberries and Raspberries." The
prize essay on Grape Growing in Min
Desota'' was awarded to Archie M. Will
cox, of Hastings. N. j.. Sheppard, of
Minneapolis, had the best essay ON
"Blackberries and Dewberries."
After finishing up part of the bust
ness left on hand and referring great
deal more to the executive committee,
the members listened to fitting speech
friendly remarks from different mem
bers, the last meeting of the week came
to close. All the little scraps of the
week were forgotten, and as the horti-
culturists mixed together, devouring
each others prize apples, slipping of
honey, admiring the flowers and giving
the farewell handshake, it was with a
feeling of friendship gained by hard
weeks work we'll done.
Among the exhibitions especially
worthy or note were the Display of
wealthy apples of F. G. Gould, Of Ex-
celsior. and the fine exhibit of honey
from the apiary of William Uric, of this
city. Both of the gentlemen are noted
for the unexcelled quality of their re-
spective products.