296 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



KEPORT FROM GREENE COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BY D. S. HOLM AN. 



Springfield, Mo., Dec. 5, 1885. 



We desire ro keep our society on record by reporting to your body 

 as a private society. Ours, as a county society, is yet small, but steadily 

 growing ; almost every meeting brings to our number additional work- 

 ers. 



Our meetings are monthly, also an annual meeting at the close of 

 the year, when we elect officers for the ensuing year, etc. The society 

 usually holds a semi-annual meeting in stawberry season, which we 

 make as pleasant as possible, in the way of displays of ilowers, berries, 

 etc., and a strawberry festival. We usually have a fair or fall show of 

 fruits. Last fall our agricultural friends gave us space in their new 

 buildings, and the best workers of our society made a creditable display 

 of the horticultural products of our county at the agricultural fair. 



At our last meeting, on the 5th inst,, the society elected two dele- 

 gates to this meeting, not so much to help here, as if possible to help 

 ourselves by getting all the information, instructions and suggestions 

 given by your society for the benefit of auxiliary societies. The dele- 

 gates are the Secretary and Mrs. Wade Buren. 



By vote of the Secretary I am instructed to invite you to come to 

 our city with your next summer's meeting, with the assurance of en- 

 tertainment free of charge during your stay. Our society desire this, 

 and ask it for our profit, which is sure to follow your meetings. 



We propose to make the the incoming year one of work as well as 

 pleasure. Our President-elect, and three other members who have 

 come to us recently, are workers from the Missouri Valley Society, and 

 •we hope some of the elements of that old prosperous society's success 

 may be brought by them to us. 



We have no hall, but little money and no debts, and of the latter 

 we mean never to have any. The field for horticultural work is large 

 and good. We are resolved to occupy it, and till] it in hope, till the 

 workers so increase that we may rejoice in success together. 



