TRAISrS ACTIONS 



AT THE 



SUMMER MEETING 



HELD BY THE 



IisGoi|siii StDte Horticultural foGletii 



At Janesville, June 16-18, 188G. 



Janesville, Wis., June 16, 1886. 



The convention was called to order in Lappin's Hall, at 

 11 o'clock by President J. M. Smith. Pres. Smith made 

 the following remarks: 



Ladies and Gentlemen: — According to our programme, 

 we are a little behind time in opening, as we very often are 

 at the commencement of our summer conventions, but at 

 10 o'clock the hall was not quite ready. The commence- 

 ment of the programme is an address of welcome by our 

 friend G. J. Kellogg. He has done all in his power to assure 

 a pleasant place of meeting, in which efforts he has been 

 most ably seconded by his daughter. 



Mr. Kellogg said: 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends of the 

 Horticidtural Society: — I expected we would have about a 

 dozen at the opening of this meeting. If we had been on 

 time in opening we should have had just thirteen here. It 

 was a mistake to put me on the programme. Mr, Adams' 

 put me on and now he dare not come down. Right behind 

 the flag hanging there is the word " Welcome." We could 

 not arrange the flag without covering it up. We bid you a 



