142 American Horticultural Society. 



The Committee on Order of Business was rc(jnestecl to icpdi't at 

 the opening of tiie afternoon session. 

 Oil motion, the Society adjonrntd. 



Fourth Day— Tuesday. 



Afteknoon Session, Feliriinn- 7, 1888. 



At 2 o'ck)ck President Earle called the meeting to order. 

 Rev. George H. Deere, of l^iverside, delivered the following 



ADDKE8S OF WELCOME. 



Lad^^x and Gentlemen, Fellow HoTiioultunMa from the far Eaift : 



S )uthern California in general, and Hiverside in particular, through me, 

 would utter its most cordial greeting and warmest welcome. Our intelli- 

 gence is of such kind as to appreciate the fact that the practical horticul- 

 turists require not only muscle and sinew, but brains. The substance of our 

 welcome you have already received. *It met you when your eyes were 

 weary with pictures of desolation on your approach to our borders. The 

 raisins were honeyed words from our vineyards; the oranges golden speech 

 from our orchards, and the flowers the smiles of our fair women. You were 

 doubtless made to feel that you were indeed approaching Eden. Milton, 

 who is good authority in matters of tradition, says " Eden stretched its line 

 from Auran [presumably Los Angeles] to the royal towers of Selencia " (bor- 

 ders of Arizona). In this fertile soil (San Bernardino. Los .\ngelesand San 

 Diego counties) this far more pleasant garden God ordained. All trees of 

 the noblest kind for sight, smell, taste, he cau.sed to grow : and amidst them 

 stood the tree of life, high, eminent, blootning ambrosial, vegetable gold. 

 This was the original Riverside Washington Navel. Dr. J. P. Gr'^evy and 

 Jude Brown, in June, 1870, believed they had found the site of the old gar- 

 den, though reduced to a desert by the ages since the first horticultiiri.sts 

 were turned out for misconduct; and on the 2(Uh of September, Dr. Orccvy, 

 with the veteran colonist Jude and John W. North, was the first to lodge 

 within its limits. Dr. Shugart and Dr. Eastman and others soon joined 

 them. Doctors, lawyers, clergymen and men of culture were numerous 

 among these adventurers. They began to build: what, they hardly knew 

 themselves. It was a sorry work amid the frowning mountains. It was all 

 climate then. Here and there they planted little sprouts, and watered them 

 year after year, as best they could, waiting all the time patiently for the 

 result. Los Angeles and S.m Bernardino, only small settlements, laughed 



^Sce Dr. Ridpnth's skctdi. " Tlic Uccoption at Indio." 



