Indiana Midsummer Horticultural Institute, 



UNDER AUSPICES OF THE 



State Horticultural Society 



AND 



PURDUE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE, 



AT 



SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, 

 Thursday and Friday, August 22 and 23, 1901. 



By invitation of the Noble Comity Horticultural Society the second 

 niidsumnier horticultural meeting, under the auspices of the Indiana Hor- 

 ticultural Society and I'urdue School of Agriculture, was held at South 

 Bend. Thursday and Friday, August 22 and 2:i, liMH. The meetings were 

 held in the Auditorium Annex. A tine display of fruit was made by the' 

 local fruit growers. 



After some a]ipro])i'iate music and an invocation by Bev. P. .T. Bice, 

 President Hobbs introihiced Hon. John B. Stoll, who delivered the wel- 

 coming address in these words:* 



Ladies and Gentlemen — It affords me great pleasiu-e to welcome to this 

 city the representatives of the Plorticultural Society of Indiana and adja- 

 cent States. It would afford the citizens of South Bend the greatest 

 pleasure, indeed, to have you, if you could, devote some of your time to a 

 trip about the city for the purpose of becoming familiar with the things of 

 interest that we have here, but we realize full well that you have come 

 here for a greater and a more important purpose, namely, that of consic 

 ering and discussing the various subjects that have been mapped out for 

 the deliberation of this meeting. We would be delighted, indeed, to offer 



•The proceedings of this meeting is from the stenographer's report. 



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