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for existence still goes on but some of its rougher features 

 have passed away. To our physical strength we are adding 

 mental culture, and the outgrowth of that culture is beauty 

 in home and garden and lawn and held. An active appre- 

 ciation of horticultural knowledge is springing up among 

 all classes of people. This society can only be true to its 

 purpose by making deeper and broader its work to meet the 

 requirements of an enlightened public judgment. 



H. C. ADAMS. 



President J. M. Smith — What will you do with this re- 

 port? Are there any remarks of criticisms upon it? 



Mr. B. S. Hoxie — I presume we are to take the larger 

 part of this report as the president's address. There are a 

 good many valuable hints and suggestions in that report 

 that the society ought to consider. The first thing I recom- 

 mend is in regard to our published reports. I have always 

 been in favor of the society having their own reports sep- 

 arate from the State Agricultural Society. We do not want 

 such a cumbersome volume as we have had, and we cer- 

 tainly want to throw our influence at this meeting against 

 the further enlargement of that volume. We want our own 

 volumes for distribution. 



It seems to me that we ought to re-district our state and 

 have reports from each county. I think we ought to have 

 a report from every county in the state. Some of the states 

 have these reports, and it makes a most interesting part of 

 their meetings. It is true every one is not prepared and 

 has not the time or ability to experiment, but we can get 

 enough who have the time and means and intelligence to 

 make these experiments and report on them properly, and 

 we can have the assistance of Professors Henry and Armsby 

 in this work. 



President J. M. Smith — Has the corresponding secretary 

 any report to make? 



Mr. B.S. Hoxie — No. 



Mr. H. C. Adams — I understand that the State Agricul- 

 tural Society has recently passed a resolution regarding 



