These conferences are for all growers interested and are free to all.  There has been some difficulty heretofore in that very few suggestions as to program have been offered by the growers themselves.  If you have any problems or matters which you would like to have discussed at these conferences, now is the time to make your suggestions.

[Illustration:  SOUTH END OF EXHIBITION HALL AT LATE SUMMER MEETING.  The flower exhibit is mostly in north end of hall, and not showing in this picture.]

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 JULY, 1916 No. 5

My Neighbor’s Roses

    The roses red upon my neighbor’s vine
    Are owned by him, but they are also mine,
    His was the cost, and his the labor, too,
    But mine, as well as his, the joy their loveliness to view.

    They bloom for me, and are to me as fair
    As for the man who gives them all his care. 
    Thus I am rich, because a good man grew
    A rose-clad vine for all his neighbors’ view.

    I know from this that others plant for me,
    And what they own, my joy may also be. 
    So why be selfish, when so much that’s fine
    Is grown for you, upon your neighbor s vine!

    —­Anon

SUMMER MEETING, 1916.

Minnesota State Horticultural Society

     A Joint Session with its Auxiliaries, the Minnesota State
     Garden Flower Society, the Minnesota State Bee-Keepers Society
     and the Minnesota State Florists Society.

A. W. LATHAM, SECY.

There seems to be something almost uncanny in the unbroken sequence of pleasant days that have greeted the annual summer meeting of the Horticultural Society in the last quarter of a century.  For days before this meeting it seemed assured that we should this year at least have an unpleasant day for our gathering, and even the day before and night before were most unfavorable.  Friday morning, June 23rd, however, opened up bright and beautiful, warm and pleasant, as nature can smile, and continued so throughout the day.  The meeting was in accord with these favorable circumstances, and I believe brought out more and better flowers and more, though no better, people, both as exhibitors and in attendance, than any previous similar gathering the association has held.