PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting 



OF 'J' 1 1 E 



Illinois State Horticultural Society 



HELD AT 



HAMILTON, DEC. 10, 11 AND 12, 1889. 



The Society convened in the City Hall in the City of Hamilton r 

 December 10th, 1889, with President Dunlap in the chair. 



The President invited Mr. Humphrey, of Quincy, to make the 

 opening prayer, after which Mayor W. C. Bridges delivered an 

 address of welcome, as follows: 



Mr. President, and Members of the 



Illinois State Horticultural Society: 



In the name of the City of Hamilton I bid you welcome ; but 

 this word welcome, which expresses so much, expresses but in 

 part the feelings of the City of Hamilton toward you. YVe trust 

 that your deliberations here may be full of harmony and result in 

 profit and credit to the Society, and be of advantage to us all. 

 And we trust that if ever you are called again to Hamilton, either 

 individually or as a society, you will feel that there is a warm wel- 

 come always awaiting you. 



Kesponse by President Dunlap : On behalf of this Society I 

 accept this welcome. We have met the people of Hamilton before 

 and we knew that in coming here we were welcome. "We knew 

 that we could not go to any place where we would be more wel- 

 come than here. "We came to this side of the State, which is some- 

 what out of the way of most of us, because we knew of the wel- 

 come we would receive. 



