PROCEEDINGS 



OK THE 



TWEXTY-FIKST AxXlAL MhHTIXG 



HELD AT 



Galesburg, December 12, 13 and 14, 1876. 



The Illinois State Horticultural Society convened for its twenty-first 

 animal session in the city of Galesburg, on Tuesday, December 12, at ten 

 o'clock, A. M. 



The President of the Society, A. C. Hammond, of Warsaw, called 

 the Society to order and presided over the deliberations of the meeting. 



Prayer was offered by the Rev. S. A. Gardner, of Galesburg. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



Prof. J. V. N. Standish, of Lombard University, Galesburg, ad- 

 dressed the Society as follows : 



Mr. Hanmiond, President of the State Horticultural Society : 



Welcome ! thrice welcome to our city ! In behalf of the Galesburg 

 Horticultural Society, I bid you, and the Society of which you are the 

 honored head, welcome ! In behalf of our city, in behalf of all elevat- 

 ing and refining influences, whatever they may be; in behalf of every 

 sesthetic art and feeling, and in the name of a higher and more symmet- 

 rical culture; in the name of a grander, nobler, broader education, I bid 

 the members of this great Society, in which is represented the horticul- 

 tural interests of this great State, each and all of you, a cordial welcome ! 



You are the almoners of gifts to unborn generations. Your works 

 shall praise you, and children's children shall call you blessed. Your 



