PROCEEDINGS 



Ol' IHE 



TwENTiEiH Annual Meeting 



HELD AT 



QuiNCY, December 14, 15 and 16, 1875. 



The Illinois State Horticultural Society convened for its twentieth 

 annual session in the city of Quincy, on Tuesday, December 14, at ten 

 o'clock A. M. 



The President of the Society, Dr. E. S. Hull, having been removed 

 by death, the Vice-President, L. K. Scofield, of Freeport, took the 

 chair and presided over the entire session. 



The meeting was opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Anderson, of 

 Quincy. 



OPENING REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT. 



President Scofield addressed the Society as follows: 



The march of time has recorded the events of another year since last 

 we met ; a year that to many of us has been fraught with hopes and fears, 

 sorrows and disappointments. 



The circumstance which makes it my duty to preside at this meeting 

 will not tend to the promotion of your joy and pleasure while here. 



During the year our ranks have been thinned by death. Our worthy 

 President, Dr. E. S. Hull, has been called to his reward. 



One of our ex-Presidents, Hon. M. L. Dunlap, and another valued 

 member, who was your former Secretary, Frank Starr, have been called 

 to close their earthly career since our last annual gathering. We will not 

 only miss them here, but thousands all over the land will mourn with 11s 

 the loss of su( h men as Hull antl Di;nlap, whose names have become so 



