Proclamation of Horticulture Awareness Week inJune of 1983. Seated is Gov Rudy Perpich . Standing L-R, Fred Glasoe, Charlie King, Lee Shannon, Glenn Ray (Exec Secretary), Lee Hallgren (President), Bob Churilla, Ray Swanson.
Proclamation of Horticulture Awareness Week in May of 1982. Seated is Gov Al Quie and unknown man. Standing L-R, Lee Hallgren (President), Elsie Wieser, Thor Aamodt, Fred Glasoe, Glenn Ray (Executive Secretary).
Photo of Minnesota horticulturist, gardening expert and radio host Fred Glasoe. He was president of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society 1984-1985.
Fred Glasoe, prominent Minnesota horticulturist, teacher, and host of the Home and Garden radio show on KSTP, stading among dahlias. He was president of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society in 1984-1985. .
Lloyd Bachman, right, vice president of Bachman's, was honored by the University of Minnesota's Advisory Council to the Institute of Agriculture, Forestry and Home Economics for his service to the council from 1958 through 1977. He is presented here with a merit award for his service by Leslie Peterson, chairman of the advisory group. Bachman ser4ved as chair of the group in 1970 and 1971 and as a representative to the Minnesota State Horticultural Society during his 19 years on the council.
Photograph of the governor signing the Dutch Elm Disease bill in 1977 with the Shade Tree Advisory Committee. Gov Rudy Perpich in the center, Glenn Roy at right, 4th from right is Ken Simons, seated left, Don Willekie.
Displays at the Minnesota State Horticultural Society annual meeting at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minnesota. Left to right are Jerry Shannon, Don Miller, Elsie Miller, JoAnne Ray, Chris Ray, Andrew Ray
Bicentennial quilt made by Garden Club members of the First District. There are 29 squares representing the garden clubs with the First District represented by the square with the ""76"". TA drawing for the quilt was held at the First District Horticultural Society Panorama Flower Show at the Mayo Auditorium in September, 1976.
Science Specialist Judy Klatt with students in courtyard of Maxfield Elementary School, St Paul. Studentts are examining a Spirea japonica Little Princess shrub.
Harold Nelson, Member of the Minnesota Dahlia Society and superintendent of the flower division at the Minnesota State Fair admiring his dahlia display. He has been cultivating dahlias since 1931 and maintains that growing them is habit forming.
Dr. Leon Snyder receiving the Gold Medal for Outstanding Horticultural Achievement from William Hull, president of the Men's Garden Clubs of America and past president of the Men's Garden Club of Minneapolis.
A photograph of a threshing machine with Russel Gilbertson, Clifford Hanson, Gordy Johnson, Jim Ernst, Henry Hamann, Clarence Tinker, Rufus Ponto, Ed Schults, and Leslie Olson.
G. Victor Lowne, President of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society, presents the deed to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum to University President J. L. Merrill.
Log cabin with window to right of center door and fence in front. It was built in 1878 by Pat Conlan who was an early homesteader in Cottonwood County.
Photograph of President Cortis Rice, Jr greeting Dr. S. L. Ensweller at the Minnesota State Horticultural Society annual banquet and garden forum at Mount Olivet Church, Minneapolis, October 12-13, 1956.
George Luxton's grandmother pays a surprise visit at the annual Minnesota State Horticultural Society banquet. George Titus, President of the Men's Garden Club of Minneapolis, was toastmaster for the evening. Second man standing is George Luxton, gardening editor for the Minneapolis Tribune newspaper.
University of Minnesota veterinarian and students conduct a field visit at a Minnesota farm to examine a cow. One of the students holds a case for a TB innoculation and/or test.
Tractors (4), wagons (3), and elevators sit in a harvested field with the corn piles to the right. Paul Benson farm is located one mile south and one mile east of Storden. Hans William Hanson farmed the land and Ole Thompson shelled the corn.
Flax bales in the field with some loaded on trucks. A group of 2 to 3 men sit and have their lunch in the shade of a truck loaded with flax. A car with doors open sits in the field to the left of the lunch group.
Minnesota Horticultural leaders Dr. Leon Snyder, director of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum (left) and Eldred Hunt, executive secretary of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society, exchanging views during a Minnesota Nurserymen's Association convention.
Robert Slavicek (right) and unknown man sitting on a log pile. Logs are resting on a sleigh hitched to a team of horses at the Slavicek family farm in Jordan, MN.
Located on the edge of Windom, the Corliss Mead Dairy farm had a large barn, silo and other outbuildings. In the background you can see the Windom Elevator.
Pictured from left to right are Robert and Carol Dvorak, Beatrice Slavicek, and an unknown woman sitting on a bench at the Slavicek family farm in Jordan, MN.
Photograph of members Men's Garden Club of Minneapolis. Back row L-R, Eldred Hunt, Cortis Rice, Joe Witmer, G. Victor Lowrie, Archie Flack. Front row unidentified.
Exterior view of the stone barn built by Frank Schott in 1923. The barn is located near Chokio and Johnson, Minnesota. This is an important and rare barn design.
Photograph of a plaque awarded to R. S. Mackintosh by the Minnesota State Horticultural Society in appreciation for over 50 years of service to the organization.
Seen from left to right are Arlyn Bohnsack, Vernon Ryan, LaVonne Bohnsack, Junette Bohnsack, Arthur Bohnsack, and Jeanne Bohnsack at the Bohnsack family farm in St. Patrick, MN.
A belt is running from the tractor to the threshing machine. Two men are on the stack of bundles pitching the bundles into the threshing machine. The threshing machine separates the grain from the straw. Along side it two horses are hooked up to a wagon. Two women came to bring lunch.
Five members of the 1940 Kanabec County Ram Association during the Annual Ram Exchange. Members pictured include: W.H. Bird, Jacob Evenson, Vertus Tamsen, William Regan, and A.E. Aulich, shown with their rams.
Four members of the 1940 Kanabec County Ram Association during the Annual Ram Exchange. Members pictured include: Fred Connell, Elmer Gotfredson, Albert Mattson, and Leo Rosnow pictured with their rams.
An arrangement of delphiniums and carnations beimng prepared for display and judging. Left to right: Mrs John T. Jackson, Mrs. Verle Nicholson, Mrs. William Klein.
A. G. Ruggles, Minnesota State Entomologist and Professor of Entomology at the University of Minnesota 1918-1943, with Plum curculio (snout beetle), most severe plum pest.
Threshing grain required many people and lots of work. One man is pitching bundles into the threshing machine while the other is watching the steam engine.
The smaller wagon next to the tractor collects the grain after it is run through the threshing machine. The threshing machine separates the grain from the straw, much like today's combine.
A trainload of produce shipped from the Princeton Depot. Image caption reads, "A solid trainload of poatatoes and onions shipped by O. J. Odegard from Princeton, Minnsota on September 20, 1937."