y 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 than the winter meeting of 1917.

Secretary Latham has prepared an excellent program for you. Many friends
of this society are with us again, full of enthusiasm and vigor, and I
know that we will have one of the most successful meetings ever enjoyed
by this organization.

Owing to the fullness of the program, I should consider it an imposition
on my part if I should attempt to make an extended address at this time
and will hasten to call on the gentlemen who are to contribute to the
success of this meeting.

[Illustration: New varieties of strawberries originated at the Minnesota
State Fruit-Breeding Farm.]

Annual Meeting, 1915, Minnesota State Horticultural Society.

A. W. LATHAM, SECRETARY.

Did you attend the 1915 meeting of this association, held in the West
Hotel, Minneapolis, four days, December 7-10 inclusive? Of course as a
member of the society you will get in cold print the substance of the
papers and discussions that were presented at this meeting, but you will
fail altogether in getting the wonderful inspiration that comes from
contact with hundreds of persons deeply interested in the various phases
of horticultural problems that are constantly passing in review during
the succeeding sessions of the meeting. With such a varied program there
is hardly any problem connected with horticulture that is not directly
or indirectly touched upon at our annual gathering, and the present
meeting was no exception to this. In all there were sixty-nine persons
on the program, and with the exception of Prof. Whitten, whom we
expected with us from the Missouri State University, and whom sickness
kept at home, and one other number, every person on the program was on
hand to perform the part assigned to him. Isn't this really a wonderful
thing where so many are concerned, emphasizing as it does the large
interest felt in the work of the society?

The meeting was held in the same room in the West Hotel which was used
for the banquet two years ago. It seats comfortably 250, and was
approximately filled at all of the sessions of the meeting. At the first
session there were in attendance about 200 when the meeting opened at
ten o'clock Tuesday morning. Later in the morning the seats were
p