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

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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
Editor: A. W. Latham
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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.
Trees, Fruits and Flowers
—OF—
MINNESOTA
1916
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.
MINNEAPOLIS
HARRISON & SMITH CO., PRINTERS
1916
[Pg 1]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
[Pg 2]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 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 bythis 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.
New varieties of strawberries
originated at the Minnesota State
FruitBreeding Farm.
[Pg 3]
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 practically all filled. Making allowance for the change in the personnel of those in
attendance at the various meetings, it is easily within the limit to say that between 400 and 500 were in
attendance at these meetings.
Immediately adjoining the audience room on the same floor, and opening out of the spacious balcony, were
the various rooms occupied by the fruit exhibit and the vegetable exhibit. The plant exhibit was in two alcoves
on this balcony, and the cut flowers were displayed along either side of the balcony, making altogether a
wonderful showing of nature's floral products. The accommodations for this meeting were almost ideal, and
judging from the expressions of the members we have never been more happily situated than on this
[Pg 4]occasion. I have endeavored to draw a plan of the arrangements at this meeting and submit it to you, not for
criticism, but to assist you in understanding the situation.
We were greatly disappointed that Prof. Whitten was detained at home by illness, but others from abroad
took up the time so that there was really no interim as a result of his absence. We were fortunate in having
with us the last day and a part of Thursday afternoon Sen. H. M. Dunlap and Mrs. Dunlap, and their parts on
the program were listened to with intense interest, and I am sure much good was gained for our membership
from the service they rendered the society, which it must be understood is a gratuitious one—indeed that
applies to all of those whose names appear upon the program. That is one good thing about the horticulturist,
he is willing to tell what he knows for the benefit of others. To hold any other view than this would be too
narrow and selfish certainly for the true lover of horticulture.
The exhibits were in every case in excess of what we anticipated. Notwithstanding the light crop of apples in
the larger portion of the state, there was really a fine showing, and quality was very high. Of boxes of apples
there were shown eleven, and of barrels of apples six, for each one of which exhibits some premium was
paid, as besides the first, second and third premiums in each case there was also a sum to be divided pro
rata. There were twenty-nine pecks of apples exhibited, for which premiums were also paid in the same way.
Four collections of top-worked apples were on the list. Premiums were awarded to forty seedling apples, an
exceedingly good showing for the season. As to the number of single plates shown the record is not easily
available, but the ac