PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING 



OF THE 



Illinois ^tate horticultural pocietij 



HELD AT 



Princeton, December 13, 14 and 15, 1887. 



The Thirty-second Annual Meeting of the Illinois State Horti- 

 cultural Society convened in Apollo Hall, in the city of Princeton, 

 December 13th, 1887. 



At 11 a. m. President Riehl called the house to order and in- 

 vited the Rev. Mr. Sweet to open the exercises veith prayer. 



President Riehl — Mayor Thompson will now welcome the So- 

 ciety to the beautiful city of Princeton. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 

 BY MAYOR THOMPSON. 



Mr. President and Members of the 



Illinois State Horticultural Society: 



In behalf of our citizens I have the pleasure of welcoming you 

 to our city in this, your thirty-second annual reunion. While this 

 may not be the exact birthplace of your society, it was surely its 

 early cradle and the home of some of its most efficient nurses, and 

 their honored names (especially that of Bryant) are still among 

 those of its active workers. There are portions of our fair land 

 where nature has been lavish in her display of luscious fruits and 

 fragrant flowers, where, touched by the irrigating stream, she wears, 

 so to speak, a perennial horticultural smile. With us, especially in 

 the cultivation of fruits, it is a warfare. Uncongenial soil, pinching 

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