PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Jwenty-geQond Annual Meeting 



OF THE 



Horticultural Society of Northern Illinois. 



The Horticultural Society of Northern Illinois, convened for 

 its Twenty-Second Annual Session, in Masonic Hall, Franklin Grove, 

 January 9th, at 11 o'clock. President Bryant officiating. 



The meeting was opened by prayer, offered by the Rev. 

 Anthony, after which the President introduced Mr. W. C. Scott, of 

 Franklin Grove, who read the following : 



ADDEESS OF WELCOME. 



BY W. C. SCOTT, FRANKLIN GROVE, 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the 



Northern Illinois Horticultural Society : 



The pleasure of extending to you the good wishes and kind hos- 

 pitalities of our people is one that, although unexpected, is very 

 sincerely appreciated by me; and whether the honor comes from an 

 over-estimate of my ability by some member of your Committee of 

 Arrangements, or from that oft-time attributed source of many 

 things, unexpected good luck, it is very gratifying in this home of 

 the Pioneer Nurseryman of Northern Illinois, Father Nathan 

 Whitney, to welcome and bid God speed to a society which has done 

 so much to develop the beauty of our Garden State, and to whom 

 our people owe so much for many of those comforts of life and 

 embellishments of homes that make the people of Illinois the hap- 

 piest, and their homes, the best adorned, of any in our fair land. 



The pioneer settlers of Illinois naturally selected their homes 

 near the groves and timber-bordered streams, both for the advantage 

 of wood for fuel and for material to fence their farms. The wide 

 prairies were then shunned, except in locations that became camping 



