The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-10
H0RTICULTURISTS AT WAR.
LIVELY TILT OVER ANCIENT DIFF
FERENCES-THE LIE
PASSED.
NEW OFFICERS ARE CHOSEN
Fight of the Morning Has Its Eject
on the Afternoon
Election.

during which considerable runsaVory
history was raked over and stirred up
in a manner to make it nauseating to
the more conservative members. For a
time charges of falsehood and dishon-
esty were passed back and forth, nei-
Their side being wanting in its supply of
vitriolic eloquence.
w. Brand, of Faribault, in speaking
of the affairs of the society, thought it
was in the hands of a local ring that
was in the control of a Minneapolis
nursery firm. He said that he had been
informed by member of the legisla-
ture that the reason the society had not
obtained the legislation it desired was
because the Legislature believed the So
ciety was not in the condition of hon
esty that it should be. He had also
been informed that a professor of horti-
culture had called upon the Legislature
for certain legislation and had so round
ly abused the members because they
would not grant it that he had to be
ordered from the room.
These remarks brought Prof. S. B..
Green, of the state school of agricult-
ure, to his feet The professor was in
dignant; he said that he knew that the
remarks of Mr. Brand were addressed
to him, and that they were false. Il
have been a member of this society for
ten years." said the professor, land
during that time have never done a
single unfair thing. 1 was appointed
as a member of the committee Of in
spection, and there is where the sore
spot with Mr. Brand lies AS mem
Der of that committee l had occasion to
report that the roots of his Peerless
apple trees were in an unsound condi-
tion and since then this man has been
nursing a grudge against me.
1.-The rumor that this committee was
in the control Of a certain nursery and
that l own stock in the same nursery
has been circulated since the opening
of this meeting by Mr.. Brand, and
wish to say that any one who says l
own a cents worth of stock in the
nursery lies. Mr. Brand comes to this
meeting and poses as one with the IN
terests of the society deeply at heart.
He offers amendments to the consu-
tuition making the list of officers larger,
to prevent any chance of m1Smanage-
ment. when, in fact, he wants an OF
fee believing that the man who han
dies the oil must have oily fingers. L
have several affidavits that this man,
who is so interested in the welfare or
this society, has paid money for several
votes. while trying to elect his son sec
rotary of this society"
In reply to this fiery arrangement,
Mr.. Brand said: IF there is anything
that Prof. Green lacks it is not brass.
He stands here and says that he was
never guilty of an unfair action as a
member of this society. and yet he
passed through block of $4,000 Peer
less apple trees on one side, and more
on the other side, to go and examine
an orchard where six Peerless trees
were growing AS to the amendments
to the constitution, I offered them in
the same spirit that I did when l Of
fered my life for my country, in 1861
for good and honest government"
Clarence Wedge, Of Albert Lea, an
other member of the committee on in
spection, said that he considered the
charges of Mr.. Brand beneath con-
tempt and he would not discuss the
question.
A motion was then offered by Mr..
Bush, that the society express them
selves as in favor of the present man
agement Of the society, and against the
proposed amendments, which motion
carried
The annual address of the president
and the reports of the several vice
presidents and other officers completed
the morning programme.
AS soon as the afternoon session con-
vened the two papers, The Fruit Status OF
Southwest Minnesota by Prof. S. B. Green,
and Problems Confronting South Dakota
Fruit Growers" by Walter S. Thornberg, of
Brookings, s. D., were read, and then the
society proceeded with the election of Off
GERS. President Underwood announced that
the election of president would be first taken
UP, and the names OF o. L.. Brand and that
of the president were placed in nomination.
President Underwood was reelected receiv-
ing lie of the 159 votes. cast. The two va
cancies in the executive board were filed by
the election of Wyman Elliott, of Mime
apolis, and ]. S. Harris. of La Crescent,
urer, and the vice presidents, E. H. S. Dart,
Owatonna; S. D. Richardson, Winnebago City;
Mrs. A. A. Kennedy, Hutchinson; R. S.
Macintosh. ST. Anthony Park Col. ]. H.
Stevens and Mrs. Jennie Stager, were re-
elected.
The general subject for the afternoon,
1.-The Farmers Flower Garden was divided
into ten five-minute papers. which were as
follows: The Uses of Flowers at the Home, -
by Mrs. Anna B. Underwood Lake City;
The Five Ps in Annuals--Pansy, Petunia,
of Lynd; Some Old Fashioned Perennials and
Their Care" Mrs A. A. Kennedy. Hutchin-
son, Mimi; "a Few of the Newer Garden
Flowers Miss Emma v White. Minneap-
oils; Garden >, Flowers Their Improvement
Minnesota Agricultural school; "The Five
Flowers in My Garden That Give Me Great
est Pleasure" Mrs. G. H. Prescott, Albert
Lea; Native Minnesota Flowers Worthy OF
Cultivation" Miss Sarah H. Manning, Lake
City; Hints on Locating Flower Beds About
the Farmers Home" Mrs. Jennie Stager
Sank Rapids: Shrubs for Farm Home Dec
oration,'' Roy Underwood, Lake City; "Sweet
Peas in Minnesota and Their Improvement
Wyman Elliot