iLLlNr)^ HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. ig^J 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

 Northern Illinois Horticultural Society. 



SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING 

 oi' THr$ Sociirrv was iikld in tiik 



COURT HOUSE AT FREEPORT, 



COMMFNCINU; jANrARV 2 1st, I 873. 



The meeting was called to order by President Hon. Lewis Ellsworth 

 at ten o'clock A. M. On account of the great snow storm but a few 

 members were present at the hour, and on motion adjourned till half- 

 past one o'clock P. M. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The Society called to order at half-past one o'clock. Prayer by the 

 Reverend Mr. Patterson. 



Vice President J. S. McCall introduced Gen S. D. Atkins, of Free- 

 port, who addressed the Society as follows : 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



BY GEN. S. D. ATKINS. 



M? President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the 



Northern Illinois Horticultural Society : 



At the request of one of your number, here resident, and in behalf 

 of our citizens, I beg the privilege, at tlie opening of your session, of 

 addressing you a few words of welcome to this city and county. Very 

 many of our citizens are deeply interested in those questions which you 

 will be likely to discuss in connection with the science and art of 

 Horticulture. 



Science is knowledge, and knowledge comes of the attrition of 

 mind with mind, and teaches us, logically, to understand the why and 

 the wherefore of things ; and art comes of experience, and teaches us 

 to apply science ; and he who has learned by experience how do any 

 thing well, has acquired an art ; and if he details his experience in 

 meetings like this, he places others in the possession of that art which 

 his experience has made peculiarly his own. 



