STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 3 



find them sufficiently comfortable and adapted to your purposes, and 

 that your deliberations may contribute largely, as they undou1)tedly 

 have done in the past, to the success and development of the first of the 

 arts — the only art man ever practiced with hands unstained by sin. 



RESPONSE BY THE PRESIDENT. 



The President then responded to Mr. Stew.^rt's address in the 

 following words : 



In behalf of the members of the Illinois State Horticultural Society 

 I return to you, sir, their heartfelt thanks for the cordial reception and 

 welcome greeting you have so generously extended to them. We thank 

 you for the generous hospitality proffered. 



The name of the Adams County Horticultural Society, which you 

 have the honor to represent, is no stranger to us. We see all about you 

 the rich fruits of your labors. The first of our race, no doubt, felt proud 

 when placed in the " Garden of Eden," and no less proud may your 

 Society feel in the possession of so goodly a heritage as you have here 

 inherited ; and may you so act therein that you may not be driven from 

 this " Eden," so beautifully located on the banks of this noble river, that 

 floats on its waters the commerce of one of the richest valleys of the 

 world. 



I trust that in the discussions of this body of horticulturists, assem- 

 bled in your beautiful city; in the acquaintance you may form with its 

 members; in the benefits accruing to you tlierefrom, you may feel, when 

 we are gone, that your generous hospitality has not been unappreciated, 

 or that your labor of love has not been without reward. 



PROGRAMME. 



The President presented the following order of exercises as the one 

 to be adopted, unless otherwise ordered by the Society : 



TUESDAY FORENOON. ^ 



Action in memory of our honored dead. 



TUESDAY AFTERNOON. 



1. Annual address — L. K. Scofield, Vice-President, Freeport. 



2. Annoucement of Special Committees. 



3. Report of Secretary — O. B. Galusha, Normal. 



4. Report of Treasurer — Jonathan Huggins, Woodbnrn. 



