s 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.

The exhibition was installed in the new gymnasium at University Farm, a
room sufficiently large so that it not only accommodated the exhibition
with wide aisle space, but also found plenty of room for the placing of
chairs for the afternoon meeting. Tables were arranged around three
sides of the hall, which were used for the displays of perennials and
roses. The peonies were shown on several tables in the north center of
the hall and besides these there were exhibits of some of the cho