suitably to express our thought in regard to it. Besides the splendid
collections of plants and the large display of cut flowers from the
state, there was shown from several eastern parties rare flowers, many
of them new productions, which had a great deal to do with the
beautiful appearance of the balcony, where all of these flowers were
shown.

[Illustration: Sketch showing arrangement of hall and adjacent rooms,
&c., used at 1915 Annual Meeting, in West Hotel, Minneapolis.]

Mention ought to be made of the monument erected in the center of the
lobby on the ground floor of the West Hotel, a structure ten feet high,
containing at its base some dozen or fifteen single layer boxes of
choice apples and on its sides something like twenty bushels of apples
put on in varying shades of red and green with a handsome ornamental
plant crowning the whole. The seal of the society decorated with
national colors appears upon the front. The picture taken of this
monument is shown as a frontispiece of this number. It is incomplete in
that the photographer cut off both ends of it, which is unfortunate in
results obtained. Nevertheless it helped materially to advertise the
meeting and was a distinct ornament in the lobby.

As to subjects in which there was a special interest on our program, the
only one to which I will here refer is that of "marketing," which
received particular attention from a considerable number of those on the
program or taking impromptu parts at the meeting. The Ladies' Federation
assisted us splendidly on the Woman's Auxiliary program, one number,
that by Mrs. Jennison, being beautifully illustrated by lantern slides.

Delegates from abroad as usual and visitors were with us in considerable