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NEW YORk 



BOTANICAL 



0ARD8N 



REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 

 at the 

 FIFTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 

 ' of the 



NORTHERN NUT GROWERS' ASSOCIATION, INC. 



September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 



Held in the 



MUSEUM OF THE BOTANICAL GARDENS 



BRONX PARK, NEW YORK CITY 



Excursions 

 Baldwin, Long Island, Sept. 4 Stamford, Connecticut, Sept. 5 



Chairman — President Harry R. Weber 



FIRST DAY— MORNING SESSION 



The President : The meeting will please be in order, and we will 

 have the secretary read his report. 



The Secretary: Secretary's Report for 1924. — Fourteen years 

 ago, on November 17, 1910, two women and ten men, seers and' 

 prophets, met for organization in this building at the invitation of Dr. 

 N. L. Britton, at that time and now. Director of the New York 

 Botanic Gardens. We meet here again today by reason of his unfail- 

 Csj ing kindness. 



£? Of the twelve persons present at that first meeting, three are 



Lo here again. Dr. Britton, Dr. Morris and myself, and two axe 



^* known to be dead. Prof. Craig of Cornell University, and Mr. Henry 



Qc Hales, of Ridgewood, New Jersey. 



^^ The association has held an annual convention each year of its 



