242 TRANSACTIONS OF THE HORTICULTURAL 



The committee on President's address being ready to report Mr. 

 Periam chairman, read the following: 



The Committee on President's Message, beg leave respectfully 

 to repeat the sympathies with the feeling expressed by our worthy 

 President, relating to the death of our late and worthy President, D. 

 Wilmot Scott, and advise that a letter of condolence be forwarded to 

 his family. 



We appreciate that portion of the address relating to the death 

 of the late worthy President of the State Horticultural Society, Hon. 

 Milo Barnard, and ex-President of the Northern Illinois Horticult- 

 ural Society. 



We respectfully recommend that a letter be prepared expressing 

 our sympathy therein and that the same be forwarded to the family 

 of the late Mr, Barnard. 



We most heartily agree with the President in his remarks relat- 

 ing to the cultivation of trees, shrubs and plants, and that the gen- 

 eral education of the people to horticulture as the best safeguard 

 against being cheated in the buying of trees and plants from unscru- 

 pulous imposters. 



We fully appreciate the importance of the thoughts of President 

 Bryant relating to the early trials of the older orchardists of the 

 state and the perseverance that has been exhibited in fostering po- 

 mology and aboriculture. 



We fully appreciate the importance of the recommendations re- 

 lating to experimental stations and the destruction of insect pests, 

 also those that relate to the eradication of weeds along our roadsides 

 and waste places, all of which is respectfully submitted. 



Jonathan Periam, ) 

 S. G. MiNKLER, > Committee. 



J. V. COTTA, ' ) 



Mr. Sanders moved that the report be adopted and the same be 

 spread on the records. Carried. 



After another song had been rendered, a motion prevailed to 

 adjourn until 10:30 Thursday morning, that hour being named to 

 give the members an opportunity to visit Father Whitney, before the 

 morning session convened. 



Thursday morning the members all went out to call on Father 

 Nathan Whitney, now in his ninety-eighth year. We found the old 

 gentleman in good health and spirits, and glad to see so many of his 

 old acquaintances. After a pleasant chat with the family and a 

 stroll around the beautiful grounds of "Whitney's No. 20 residence" 

 the members visited the cellars, which were filled with casks of the 

 famous " Whitney's No. 20 Crab Cider," where they drank the health 

 of their host and returned to Masonic Hall. 



