STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. tJ 



We have come togetlier as a Iloitieultural Fraternity. We feel gratified with the 

 interest you oxpi'css in the object of our association — we love to meet with genial 

 minds ; and we trust the courtesy and generosity of yoiu" citizens will be gi'atefully 

 remembered. We have come together from every portion of our extended State to 

 meet with you here, to form the pleasant acquaintance of your citizens, to enjoy the 

 social hospitalities of your firesides, and to discuss subjects relating to the health, com- 

 fort and embellishment of our homes and the refinement of our lives. 



Again thanking you for this generous reception, we will proceed to the business for 

 which we are convened. 



A SIDE SHOW. 



Mr. Wier suggested the propriety of inviting Professor Powell to 

 deliver a lecture before the society. He said in support of the sugges- 

 tion : " It is the most interesting lecture I have ever had the good 

 fortune to hear ; and I think it would be of interest to all of us. We 

 can get him here by Thursday night if desired. We shall have to 

 appoint a committee to arrange the matter and select a suitable room,- 

 To-night he lectures at Cincinnati, but could be here by Thursday. 



Mr. Flagg — On Thursday night vs^e have an address from a man, who 

 perhaps more than all others, would interest this society, Mr. Thomas 

 Meehan, of Philadelphia ; and though I should be glad to hear Professor 

 Powell, providing it could be done without interfering with the business 

 of the society, yet it appears to me it would not be possible to give up 

 Thursday evening for that purpose. On Wednesday evening there is a 

 vacancy caused by the death of our late State Entomologist. 



Mr. Wier — It would be impossible for the Major to be here on 

 Wednesday night. Would it not be possible to arrange so that Mr. 

 Meehan could take Thursday afternoon, and leave the evening for Major 

 Powell? 



Mr. Earle — Perhaps that change could be effected. I should be glad 

 to hear a lecture so full of interest as that of the Major ; but it is not 

 horticulture, and I do not think we have ever yet seevi the time when we 

 could spare a full evening for a matter that was entirely foreign to the 

 subject under discussion, and I do not think we shall have time now. 



Mr. Daggy — It seems to me this would be a little in advance of our 

 position — to invite a lecturer here without first conferring with the 

 citizens of Ottawa. 



