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Dr. Siuall extended h cordial invitation to the Society to meet 

 in Kankakee. 



D. Hill invited the Society to Dnndee. 



An invitation was extended to meet in the city of Elgin. 



The three places were voted for and the result was a large ma- 

 jority in favor of Elgin, whereupon the President announced that 

 the Society had made a choice of Elgin as the place of holding the 

 next annual meeting. 



The time of holding the next meeting was referred. })y vote, to 

 the Executive Committee. 



Committee on Programme reported for the evening's business as 

 follows : 



1st. Two Fields, by Mrs. L. K. K. Becker, of Elgin. 



2d. The World a (rarden and Humanity a Gardener, by Mrs. J. 

 R. Curtis, of Marengo. 



3d. Miscellaneous Business. 



4th. <^)uery Box. 



Society adjourned until 7 o'clock in the euening. 



SECOND DAY — Evening. 



Meeting convened as per adjournment, and the President an- 

 nounced a paper by Mr. O'Neal, of Elgin: 



FLORICULTURE. 



BY B. o'nEAL, ELGIN. 



Mr. President and Genflenten of the Horticiiltarfd Society of Northern 



Illinois : 



The history of floriculture in all its purity, simplicity and 

 grandeur, is so vast and extensive that it could never be written. 

 Under "Flora's mantle'" are many undiscovered treasures. It con- 

 tains not only a balm to please our finer sentiments, but a therapeu- 

 tic power to restore the diseased functions of a ])hysical organiza- 

 tion to its normal condition, and in our public schools I hope some 

 of the fancy branches now taught will give way some day to the 

 study of medical botany. 



