seventeenth. Full accommodations offered by the Winneshiek Hotel made
the trip complete and homelike to delegates and members.

The convention was held in the old Marsh Hall, a very suitable place,
offering ample room with all necessary accommodations for such a
gathering.

Decorations showed much time and skill, resulting in a beautiful display
of shrubbery-boughs, evergreen, etc.

The area of a table about one hundred feet long and six feet wide,
running through the center of the hall, contained a great variety of
apples surprising for this season. Many, including C.H. True, of Clayton
county, proved themselves successful orchardists.

[Illustration: Mr. C. E. Snyder, Preston.]

On various other tables large displays of agriculture, apiary,
greenhouse and garden products completed the harmonizing of
horticulture, floriculture and agriculture, including mentioned
decorations appearing as a striking feature and an encouragement to the
cause.

The meeting was called to order shortly after ten o'clock by President
Geo. S. Woodruff. The mingling of many instructive papers with humorous
selections and music proved the program well arranged. Same carried out
very successfully held the interest of a not large but fair attendance
throughout. A paper and address by Wesley Greene, of Des Moines, should
have reached the ears of every Iowa and Minnesota citizen. A striking
selection on "The Tree," by J. A. Nelson, was descriptive, instructive,