SUMMER MEETING. 3'S 



Rusk, BubachNo. 5, Warfleld No. 2, Bubach, Great Pacific, Tippecanoe, Boston 

 Eclipse, Beder Wood, Capt. Jack. 



The committee recommend a premium of one dollar be awarded Mr. A. P. 

 Berkehile for collection of strawberries. 



The committee recommend a premium of fifty cents be awarded Mr. S. W. 

 Gilbert of Thayer, Mo., for one box of Hopkins' raspberries. 



Mr. Gilbert also sends a collection of twigs of apple and peach thickly set with 



fruit, and at this state of the fruit the condition seems to be good— the twig of 



Family Favorite being very thickly set with fruit. 



Geo. L. Tippin, 



W. E. Lilly, 



L. W. Hayden. 



Thursday, June 8, 9 a. m. 



Society was called to order and the business matters of the 

 Society were taken up. 



The report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society was 

 read, as follows : 



When, 12 years ago, at the meeting of this t^ociety, held in the Agricultural 

 building, 1 was chosen President, little did I think that I should be so closely con- 

 nected with the horticultural interests of the State, or that I would see such a 

 widespread influence and such good results from the feeling there awakened and 

 the work accomplished. Since then our work has been growing and spreading 

 until we find thousands interested in it as a means of livelihood, and thousands of 

 others just as much interested in it as a source of pleasure and education, as well 

 as of love for the beautiful. 



The wonderful growth of horticulture ia this western country may be traced 

 by hundreds and thousands from their own experience and knowledge. It is not 

 beyond the recollection of the youngest fruit-grower here when a few boxes of 

 berries, a few bushels of peaches, a few hundreds of fruit trees, a few plants from 

 the green-houses, would supply all our demands. Today there lives in this western 

 country the man who was express messenger on the train which carried the first 

 shipment of five crates of strawberries to the Chicago market. Not very many 

 years ago I took to the Kansas City market a few crates of berries, and the market 

 and grocerymen did not knosv what they should do with them. 



Our growth has not been a rapid, but a sound one, and we are glad to see and 

 know that this influence has done much for the State, and that it is spreading over 

 our beautiful land. Ours has been a missionary work, and the results, money for 

 the homes of the learners. I could point you to hundreds who today have fine 

 young orchards growing that received their first inspiration from some member of 

 this Society, or from our meetings or reports thereof. 



THE FRUIT SEASON. 



The almost complete failure of our apple crop this season has led many to 

 think that we can no longer grow the apple profitably in our western country. 

 But these climatic influences are not continuous and will not long remain, and the 

 work must not be allowed to flag because thereof. When a horse is lame, he needs 

 attention; when a cow is injured, she gets good care; when a person is sick, he 

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