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MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



TREASURERS REPORT— Continued . 



Z. S. RAG AN, 



Treasurer. 

 Refered to the Committee on Finance, and returned approved. 



J. A. DURKES, 

 W. B. STARK, 

 E. P. HENRY, 



Committee. 

 V 

 A resolution was passed referring the places of the June meeting 



and of the winter meeting to the " executive committee" for their de- 

 cision. 



The resolution referring to a committee the matter of a plantation 

 at Nevada, was reported upon by the committee as follows : 



Your committee to whom was referred the resolution introduced 

 by Mr. Kern requesting the influence of this society to secure an ap- 

 propriation from the General Assembly for the planting or forest trees 

 on the grounds of Asylum No. 3, beg leave to report the following: 



Resolved^ We invite the co-operation of the friends of horticulture, 

 in annual meeting assembled, to assist the securing of an appropria- 

 tion by our next Legislature sufficient for the improvement and plant- 

 ing of the grounds of Asylum Nu. 3. 



We endorsed the resolution passed by the Commissioners of Insane 

 Asylum No. 3, and will, as a society, make every possible eflFort to im- 

 press our legislators favorably with the necessity of a liberal appro- 

 priation for the improvement of these grounds, by which the useful- 

 ness of the future institution will be greatly enhanced, and an oppor- 

 tunity afforded to illustrate the modern modes of practical forest cul- 

 ture to the people of the sculluvest and State at large. 



D. S. HOLMAN, 

 J.W.SANBORN, 

 J. A DURKES, 



Committee. 



