84 REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. 



EEPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



To the Honorable State Board of Horticulture — 

 Gentlemen : 



"The Father of humankind himself ordains 

 The husbandman shall tread no path of flowers. 

 But waken the sleeping land by sleepless pains, — 

 So pricketh he these indolent hearts of ours, 

 Lest his realms be in hopeless torpor held. 



And all these things he did, 

 That man himself, by pondering, might divine 

 All mysteries, and, in due time, conceive 

 The varying arts whereby we have leave to live." 



— Virgil. 



Agreeably with my duty, permit me to hand you a report 

 of the workings of this office since my appointment as secre- 

 tary of this board, at your annual meeting held at Salem in 

 April, 1899. 



This w^as a very notable meeting in many ways, as both the 

 then president and secretary retired, both tried and valued 

 officers — President Cardwell having held that position ever 

 since the board was organized, ten years ago. Under the new 

 law, "which necessitated the president visiting the orchards in 

 person, the position required more time than he could give to 

 the fruit interests, hence his resignation. In presenting his 

 successor, Hon. H.B.Miller, Doctor Cardwell spoke at length 

 on the condition of fruit interests, on the initiation of the 

 present law", and concluded with wise suggestions for the fu- 

 ture administration and success of the board. 



Mr. Miller thanked Doctor Cardwell for the many kind 

 words spoken and courtesies shown him, and feelingly alluded 

 to the valuable labors of Doctor Cardwell as a horticulturist 

 and president of the board, which he said were duly appre- 

 ciated by the fruitgrowers througliout the state, and -highly 

 creditable to him as a citizen. 



Commissioners Lloyd T. Reynolds and Henry E. Dosch, 

 who had been appointed a committee, presented the following 



RESOLUTIONS. 



Whereas, The duties of the President of the State Board 

 of Horticulture have been greatly enlarged by an act of the 

 last legislature ; and. 



