PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting 



OF THE 



Indiana Horticultural Society 



HELD IN THE STATE HOUSE 



DECEMBER 7th and 8th, 1904. 



The forty-fourth annual meeting of the Indiana Horticultural Society 

 was called to order at 1:30 p. m., Wednesday, December 7, 1904, with 

 President Warder W. Stevens in the chair, who said: 



Ladies and Gentlemen: I am glad to meet and greet so many of you 

 here at the opening session of our annual meeting. As many of you know, 

 our summer meeting was omitted because of the fact that nearly all of 

 the horticulturalists in the State were engaged in the work of collecting 

 and sending fruits to the World's Fair at St. Louis, and on account of 

 this it was thought best to "omit our summer meeting. I think we should 

 now make it up by putting in good time here along various lines of useful 

 things that will be of interest to the Indiana Horticultural Society. 



We will now take up our regular program. The first will be an invo- 

 cation by A. W. Shoemaker, of Daleville, Indiana. 



A. W. Shoemaker: Our Father and our God, as we assemble 

 here this afternoon we recognize that it is fitting that we should call 

 upon Thee and ask Thee to send forth Thy blessing and Tny benediction 

 upon us in the hours and days that we are assembled here together. 

 Grant that we may realize that we are laboring together Avith Thee, and 

 that without Thee we can do nothing; that all we have and are, or ever 

 hope to be comes from Thee, the true and the living God. We come into 

 Thy presence this afternoon realizing and recognizing that without Thee 

 we can do nothing, and we call for Thy assistance in all that we may at- 

 tempt, and grant, dear Heavenly Father, that something may he accom- 



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