The Minnesota Horticulturist: Annual report of the Minnesota State Horticultural SocietyBruce Publishing Company, 1878 |
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Page 134 - Treasurer, on his receipt; shall receive and answer all communications addressed to the Society; establish and maintain correspondence with all local, county, district and State horticultural societies, and secure by exchange their transactions, as far as possible, to aid the President, as an executive officer, in the dispatch of business relating to the meetings of the Society, preparing and publishing circulars and notices of horticultural and similar meetings of general interest, and report to...
Page 23 - T lins been said that he who causes two blades of grass to grow, where only one grew before...
Page 133 - Paist, all of Ramsey county, and Thomas Ramsden of Washington county, 0. F. Brand, AW McKinstry and Levi Nutting, all of Rice county, and PA Jewell, of Wabasha, EHS Dart, of Owatonna, Steele county, all of the State of Minnesota, do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose of becoming incorporated under the name, and for the purposes hereinafter stated, pursuant to the provisions of title and chapter 34 of the General Statutes of said State of Minnesota, so far as the same may be applicable,...
Page 30 - Bryant, and sprang from the seed in the year 1713, in the garden of a Quaker named Mudge. At three feet from the ground it is twenty-five feet in circumference. At the height of twelve or fifteen feet, the trunk divides into several branches, each of which, by itself, would constitute a large tree — the whole forming an immense canopy, overshadowing an area one hundred and fifty feet in diameter.
Page 78 - President. 6. The officers shall be elected separately and annually, by a ballot vote, and hold their office until their successors are elected. 7. The object of the Society being to collect, condense and collate information relative to. all varieties of fruits, and dispense the same among the people...
Page 79 - Destined in these climates to a perpetual struggle with nature, it is here that we find man ameliorating and transforming her. Transplanted into a warmer aspect, stimulated by a richer soil, reared from selected seeds, carefully pruned, sheltered and watched, by slow degrees the sour and bitter crab expands into a Golden Pippin, the wild pear loses its thorns and becomes a Bergamotte or a Beurre, the Almond is deprived of its bitterness, and the dry and flavourless Peach is at length a tempting and...
Page 91 - Watrous was made an honorary member of the society, and the society then proceeded to the election of officers, with the following result: President— WA Burnap, Mason City.
Page 134 - Society; preparing and publishing circulars and notices of horticultural and similar meetings of general interest, and report to the annual meeting of the Society an abstract of the matter that has come into his possession, which, with its approval, shall become part of the transactions for the present year.
Page 133 - Article 2. The object of this society shall be to collect and diffuse information on the true character of slavery ; to convince our countrymen of its heinous criminality in the sight of God ; to show that the duty, safety and interest of all concerned require its abandonment ; and to take all lawful, moral and religious means to effect a total and immediate...
Page 134 - Executive Committee may call a meeting of the Society at any time and place they may consider advisable, by a notice of thirty days in the public press.