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Donplas. Souv d'Ami. 



bafrano. Souv de la ^Slalmaison. 



Jion Silene. Appolina. 



Isabella Sprunt. Reine M. Ilennette. 



Mad. :Margottin. La Marque. 



The lists presented are for this place, and are all varieties that 

 have done well and do well here every year. I believe these lists are 

 long enough, and I Avill stop here. 



One more word. I believe if the Executive Committee were to 

 offer a few premiums for plants and cut flowers, we might have a 

 ffood show at the next meeting, and with the show we would get a 



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good crowd of ladies. Over at Hamilton, at the Central meeting, 

 there was a fine display of cut flowers and plarits, and the hall was 

 crowded, and it was not a very small hall, either. The plants will 

 bring the ladies, and I believe" that the New York and Pennsylvania 

 Societies are doing a grand work through floriculture, and there is 

 no reason why this Society should not do the same. 



Mr. J. S. Browne — I move that all papers not on the programme 

 be referred to the Executive Board for publication, and that all papers 

 of great length either be returned to the writer for condensation, if 

 they so desire, or that the secretary be instructed to so cut them 

 down that the next volume will not exceed 400 pages. 



Motion adopted. 



Mr. Augustine suggested the propriety of furnishing the mem- 

 bers of the Society with badges. 



After some discussion the question was referred to the Executive 

 Board. 



A PAPER. 



BY A. L. HAY. 



Ladies and Gentlemen. 



We, perhaps, owe this society an apology for many seeming 

 neglects, which may be apparent to some of your more critical 

 observers, in connection with your entertainment while in this city. 



While you have been entertained in the name of the' Jackson- 

 ville Horticultural Society, I will now make the humiliating con- 

 fession that that society died a natural death some four years ago, 

 and while under the treatment of some of the most skillful horticul- 

 tural physicians of this community; with its stomach tilled with 

 long essays of a mixed nature and long-winded speeches upon differ- 

 ent topics, and a wet bed (juilt wrajjped around its head, it was 

 carefully placed in its metalic coffin, the lid nailed down, and dropped 

 into its everlasting resting place. 



