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.