34 TEANSACTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS 



WEDNESDAY MORNING. 



At the appointed hour the President called the house to order, 

 and invited the Rev. Mr. McGinnis to invoke the divine blessing. 



The election of officers was now taken up and resulted as fol- 

 lows: 



President — Milo Barnard, Manteno. 



Vice-President — H. M. Dunlap, Savoy. 



Secretary — A. C. Hammond, Warsaw. 



Treasurer — H. K. Vickroy, Normal. 



President — Next on the programme is location of the next an- 

 nual meeting. Invitations are now in order. 



J. S. Browne — I invite the Society to hold its next annual 

 meeting in the City of Alton. We have good halls and hotels, and 

 the best of railroad facilities, and as we held our meeting last year 

 in the Central and this year in the Northern District, it is but just 

 that the next meeting be held in the South. 



Mr. Dennis read an invitation from the City Council, indorsed 

 by the Floral Guild, of Carthage, to hold its next meeting in the 

 City of Carthage, and moved that it be accepted. He said he had 

 taken some pains to investigate the hotel accommodations, and had 

 found that they were ample. 



The Secretary presented an invitation from Galva, and Mr. 

 Gaston from Lacon. 



A ballot was now taken, which resulted in favor of Alton. 



Song — By Miss Mesner. 



PAEKS, NATURAL AND AETIFICIAL. 

 BY H. D. BKOWN, HAMILTON. 



Mr. President., Ladies and Gentlemen: 



"A thing of beauty is a joy forever" applies very appropriately 

 to a park, for what can be more beautiful than well-kept grounds 

 with trees, shrubs, flowers, graceful curving lines of road and paths, 

 lakes, fountains, cascades and brambles, and all the beauty that 

 makes a park like Lincoln of Chicago, or Central of New York, and 

 numerous others in our land ? 



