Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916

Trees, Fruits and Flowers of
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Title: Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the
Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44,
from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve
Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916
Author: Various
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TREES, FRUITS AND FLOWERS OF MINNESOTA
1916

[Illustration: MONUMENT ERECTED IN LOBBY OF WEST
HOTEL, MINNEAPOLIS,
Place of annual meeting of the society, December 7 to 10. Height of
monument, 10 feet. Number of bushels of apples used, twenty-five.
Enlarged seal of the society on its front.]

Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural
Society from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the
Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916.
Edited By The Secretary,
A. W. LATHAM,
Office and Library, 207 Kasota Block, Minneapolis, Minn.
Vol. XLIV.

[Illustration: MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
"PERSEVERANTIA VINCIMUS" ORGANIZED 1866.]

Minneapolis Harrison & Smith Co., Printers 1916

While it is not the intention to publish anything in this magazine that is
misleading or unreliable, yet it must be remembered that the articles
published herein recite the experience and opinions of their writers, and
this fact must always be noted in estimating their practical value.

THE MINNESOTA HORTICULTURIST
Vol. 44 JANUARY, 1916 No. 1

President's Greeting, Annual Meeting, 1915.
THOS. E. CASHMAN, PRESIDENT.
This is the forty-ninth annual meeting of the Minnesota State
Horticultural Society. Nearly half a century has elapsed since that little
band of pioneers met in Rochester and organized that they might work
out a problem that had proven too difficult for any of them to handle
single handed and alone. Those men were all anxious to raise at least
sufficient fruit for themselves and families. They had tried and failed.
They were not willing to give up. They knew they could accomplish
more by interchanging ideas, and, furthermore, if they were able to
learn anything by experience they wanted to pass it on to their
neighbors.
Those men built better than they knew. The foundation was properly
laid, and the structure, while not finished, is an imposing one. A great
many people believe that this structure has been completed, that we
have reached our possibilities in fruit raising. This is only half true. We

are still building on this splendid foundation erected by those few
enthusiasts.
None of those men are left to enjoy the benefits of their labor. The
present generation and the generations to come are and will be the
beneficiaries, and I believe as a tribute to their memory and the good
that they have done that we should fittingly celebrate our fiftieth
anniversary. At this time I can not suggest how this should be done; I
simply make this suggestion in hopes that it may be worked out.
I was in hopes that a home for this society might have been erected this
year or at least made ready for the 1916 meeting. This would surely
have been an occasion worthy of the anniversary which we hope to
celebrate.
The building committee appointed by the last meeting went before the
legislature and tried with all the eloquence at their command to make
the members of the legislature see the necessity of appropriating
sufficient money to build a permanent home for this organization. The
members saw the force of our argument, but we could not convince a
majority of the appropriation committee that they should deviate from
their plan of retrenchment which seemed to permeate their every act.
We were disappointed but not disheartened. We were promised better
success in the 1917 session. So we are living in hopes, and I firmly
believe that if our efforts are renewed at that time that this and the
auxiliary societies may have an opportunity of meeting and transacting
business in a home that, while it will belong to the state, will be for the
use of these organizations, and that we may be able to take up our
abode in it not later