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MINUTE)S OF THK ANNUAL MEETING OF THE 

 STATE HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION OF 

 PENNSYLVANIA. 



HELD AT PITTSBURG, PA., JANUARY 16 AND 17, 1900. 



Pittsburg, January 16, 1900. 



The Forty-first Annual Meeting of the State Horticultural Asso- 

 ciation of Pennsylvania was held at Pittsburg, Pa., January 16 and 

 17, 1900. 



After some preliminary work in the arrangements of decollations 

 and exhibits, and a pleasant interchange of greetings between the 

 members from the eastern sections of the State and their friends 

 from Allegheny county and vicinity, the meeting was called to order 

 for business at 11 o'clock, by President Heiges, who expressed his 

 great pleasure in meeting for the first time so many enthusiastic 

 horticultural friends west of the Allegheny mountains and hoped 

 for a pleasant and profitable meeting. He took pleasure in intro- 

 ducing Mayor Wm. J. Diehl, of Pittsburg, who cordially welcomed 

 the members, as follows: 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME BY MAYOR W. J. DIEHL. 



"Gentlemen of the State Horticultural Society of Pennsylvania: 

 Without indulging in the formality of any prefatory remarks, I bid 

 you a most hearty welcome to Pittsburg, and on behalf of the citi- 

 zens extend to you the cordial hand of hospitality, with the 

 sincere hope that your stay among us will be an extremely pleas- 

 ant and enjoyable one. I feel certain that those to whom your care 

 has been entrusted, the local committee of arrangements, will do all' 

 in their power to make it so, and that they will succeed to your 

 entire satisfaction I haven't the least doubt. 



"While Pittsburg cannot boast of being anything great in the 

 way of a fruit raiser, it is a wonderful producer in the industrial line, 

 leading the world in that, and all that has made Pittsburg, spread- 

 ing its fame to every inhabitable part of the globe, is open for your 

 inspection, and will certainly well repay that inspection. But we 

 Pittsburgers are big consumers of fruit, and excellent customers for 

 the fruit grower, while at the same time we count the fruit growers 

 among our vorv host frionrls for the good things of life whinh they 



