KEPORT OF GREEN'S COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 143 



REPORT OF GREENE COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BY D. S. HOLMAN, SPRINGFIELD. 



ALSO SOME OF THE PAPERS READ DURING THE YEAR. 



Springfield, Mo., June 8th, 1885, 

 OfficeTs and Members Missouri State Horticultural Society : 



We offer the followiag brief report from the Greene County Horti- 

 cultural Society, more from a disposition to obey the rule than to tell 

 the little we have done. 



Oiir society since your annual meeting has made, we think, some 

 progress, but is working slowly. We really find that it is less difficult 

 to start a new society than revive an old one. There is a good horti- 

 cultural element in our county. The number of practical men who 

 gather the fruits of our labors is large, but the societies constant 

 monthly work is done by a few, as I presume is the case in most cases 

 of similar work. 



The membership has still increased slowly, until our number is 

 about forty. 



We have our business meetings monthly, and election of officers in 

 December for the ensuing year. 



Horticulture in our portion of the State is becoming every year 

 more interesting, the field for society work seems steadily widening, 

 and we hope to do what we can. 



We are happy to report the pleasure of an occasional visit by your 

 secretary and others of this society, and hope to have such pleasure 

 often repeated. 



Upon a statement last winter by your secretary, that the State 

 society ought to have 500 members, our county society proposed to be 

 one of fifty to make it so by ten new members. We will do all we 

 promised and more. 



We have been pleased and greatly profited by the work and reports 

 of your society, and by circulating these reports we find workers 

 drawn into both ours and the State society. 



