18 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



of 8ucli persons as take ah interest in the advancement of horticulture 

 in this State, who shall apply for membership, and pay into the Society 

 treasury the sum of $1 per year, or $10 for life membership. The 

 officers of the Society at present are as follows: 



President — Hon. J. C. Evans of Clay county, a man whom many 

 of you know familiarly as "Bud Evans," high in authority on horti- 

 culture, and universally respected and loved by all who know him. 



Vice-President — Hon. N. F. Murray, member of the 37th General 

 Assembly from Holt county, an educated gentleman, whose birth-place 

 is Virginia, but who can say more hearty good words for his adopted 

 State, "Grand Old Missouri," than any one I have ever heard talk ; a 

 practical horticulturist and an enthusiast in his calling. J 



Second Vice-President — Judge Samuel Miller, mentioned above — 

 whom to know is to admire and respect. A Pennsylvanian by birth, 

 but a resident of Missouri for many years. 



Secretary — Hon. L. A. Goodman, of Westport, Mo. A Michigander 

 by birth, an educated, practical horticulturist, a ready debater, and an 

 indefatigable worker for the success of the Society and horticulture in 

 general; devotes all his time to the work of the Society, and to him is 

 due a great share of its honors. 



Treasurer — A. Nelson, of Laclede county, a very practical man, an 

 investigator and experimenter in the secrets of the soils, improved 

 methods of cultivation, originator of new fruits, vegetables, and im- 

 provement of the old by cross-breeding — a pleasant, companionable 

 gentleman, with whom it is a pleasure to converse. Such is a brief 

 mention of the ofiflcers of the Societv. 



To the Missouri State Horticultural Society the people of this 

 State are indebted for the highest honors and awards at the World's 

 * Fair at New Orleans, also for the many magnificent displays of fruit at 

 the several St. Louis expositions, and for the finest exhibit of fruit at 

 the Chicago fair (California alone excepted), and to my mind Missouri 

 excelled California's diplay, because of its great sameness, while Mis- 

 souri had an endless variety. The St. Louis Exposition Company sent 

 a representative to Harrisonville and placed the entire horticultural 

 exhibit in the hands of the Missouri State Horticultural Society to 

 manage as they see fit, with the very choicest space in the building 

 alloted to them for their use for the fall of 1894; which the Society 

 accepted, and visitors to St. Louis this fall may expect something fine 

 in that department. 



Well, we were met at the depot at Harrisonville by Secretary 

 Goodman, and in company with President Evans and wife. Major Hol- 

 singer of Rosedale, Kansas, Vice-President Murray and wife, and other 



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