Manuscripts Collection
The objectives of the club are to stimulate the knowledge and love of horticulture, floriculture, landscape and vegetable gardening among amateurs; aid in the protection of native plants and trees; and encourage civic planting.
The club is affiliated with the Minnesota State Horticultural Society, and was a member of the Society's Seventh District.
Minutes are widely scattered for the first thirty years of the club and contain a mixture of board of directors, regular membership, and annual meeting minutes thereafter. Membership directories contain a roster of members, list of past presidents, bylaws, budgets, and events schedules for that particular year. Minutes and newsletters of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society for the 1980s and 1990s are found in the events and program files. There are several club histories in this collection and club activities are further documented in the correspondence, committee reports, newspaper clippings, and financial records. A number of photographs and slides of members and members' gardens also are included.
Accession number: 15,786; 16,629; 17,426; 17,655
Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project
grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Catalog ID number: 990063698990104294
Widely scattered for years 1912-1935. Minutes for the years 1936, 1939, and 1942-1943 are missing. Many years contain board of directors minutes, regular membership minutes, and annual membership meeting minutes.
Widely scattered for 1912-1936. 1960 is missing.
Compiled data, in spreadsheet form.
Primarily minutes and newsletters of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society and its Seventh District.
A mixture of annual and monthly statements. Incomplete.