354 State Horticultural Society. 



Mr. Jones : I feel as if I must speak a word at this time. I have 

 been attending Horticultural meetings and visiting fruit lands from 

 Winnebago to the Gulf of Mexico, and I feel that it will be nothing 

 more than proper, to say a word in regard to this magnificent fruit 

 displa3^ I think I never saw anything, not even the exhibit at the 

 World's Fair, that seemed to fill me with so much enthusiasm for 

 fruit growing. I have heard it said in many places that Missouri 

 could raise good Ben Davis apples, but that was all. I wish that 

 every man who ever made that remark could witness this magnificent 

 fruit display, and taste these most excellent apples. I believe Mis- 

 souri has wonderful possibilities. I attended your State meeting 

 last year and this year, and I feel like the old lady who said that she 

 had attended over one hundred 4th of July celebrations, and the last 

 one was the best. I feel like I could attend one more. 



Mr. Hopkins : I move a vote of thanks be tendered to our retir- 

 ing President for the faithful discharge of his duties during his term 

 of office. Carried, unanimously. 



President Murray : Ladies and Gentlemen — I certainly appreciate 

 the vote that you have given me. I have simply tried to do my duty 

 as President of the Society, and to the best of my knowledge I have 

 done everything in my power to promote the interests of pomology 

 throughout the State of Missouri. 



I think it is only right and proper that I should say here, that 

 I had the pleasure of attending, as a delegate of your Society, the 

 meeting of the American Pomological Society that convened at Buf- 

 falo, New York, in September, and while it was a pleasure (because it 

 was a trip to a part of the country that I had not seen) it was some- 

 thing of a disappointment. We had delegates there from thirty dif- 

 ferent States and from Alaska, but I would rather spend three hours 

 here, or one session here, than all the sessions or two days at the 

 great Pomological Society of Bufifalo, New York. If you had been 

 there you would have said the same thing, that you could learn more 

 here and see more than we did at that meeting. 



At that meeting the Ex-Commissioner of Pomology of Washing- 

 ton City, Mr. Van Deman, gave it as his unsolicited verdict that the 

 State Horticultural- Society of -Missouri, (and I believe he is a gen- 

 tleman quite well acquainted with all tthe State Societies throughout 

 the Union) was the best and most practical working State Plorticul- 

 tural Society there was in the United States. 



Now, ladies and gentlemen, I have no time to make a speech. I 

 want to say this in conclusion. \\'\> have been doing well in Ihc past. 



