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Sec 11. The Missouri State Horticultural Society sliall be composed of such 

 persons as take an interest in the advancement of horticulture in this State who 

 shall apply for membership and pay into the society treasury the sum of one dol- 

 lar per year, or ten dollars for a life membership, the basis for organizition to be 

 the Missouri State Horticultural Society, as now known and existing, and whose 

 expenses have been borne and annual reports paid for by appropriations from the 

 state treasury. The business of the Society, so far as it relates to transactions 

 with the State, shall be conducted by an executive board to be composed of the 

 president, vice-president, second vice-president, secretary and treasurer, who 

 shall be elected by ballot at an annual meeting of the Society ; the Governor of the 

 State shall be ex officio a member of the board— all other business of the Society to 

 be conducted as its by- laws may direct. All appropriations made by the State for 

 the aid of the Society shall be expended by means of requisitions to be made by 

 order of the board on the State Auditor, signed by the president and secretary and 

 attested with the seal ; and the treasurer shall annually publish a detailed state- 

 ment of the expenditures of the board, covering all moneys received by it. The 

 p-ublic printer shall annually, under the direction of the board, print such number 

 of reports of the proceedings of the board, society and auxiliary societies as may 

 in the judgment of the state printing commission be justified by the appropria- 

 tion made for that purpose by the General Assembly, such annual report not to con- 

 tain more than four hundred pages. The secretary of the Society shall receive a 

 salary of eight hundred dollars per annum as full compensation for his services ; 

 all other officers shall serve without compensation, except that they may receive 

 their actual expenses in attending meetings of the board. 



Sec. 12. The title of the act of 1891 alluded to in this act being defective, 

 and the repealing clause therein alluded to having been omitted in the body of the 

 act, and there being a necessity more clearly to provide for the Missouri State 

 Horticultural Society, create an emergency within the meaning of the constitution ; 

 therefore, this act shall take eftect and be in force from and after its passage. 



EXHIBIT AT CHICAGO. 



No one knows the worry and trouble about our exhibit at Chicago, except the 

 President and myself. After two sets of plans had been agreed upon, they were 

 rejected by the authorities in Chicago, and I was by telegram summoned to St. 

 Louis only a little over a month before the opening of the fair to propose another 

 plan for the display. This was done, and now we hsve in Chicago, after infinite 

 delay and disappointment, one of the very best plans for display on the grounds, 

 and one of the very best displays there. About twelve hundred jars, large and 

 small, were filled last fall and summer with every variety of the fruits of our State, 

 and are now on exhibition. A plan of the display is hereby submitted, and a cut 

 taken from the picture of the fruits as they appear from a photograph . 



Besides these twelve hundred jars of fruits we have in Chicago one hundred 

 and fifty barrels of apples in cold storage for use on our tables. We will have 

 these fine specimens on the tables until after apples begin to come again. These 

 are all cleaned off every day, the rotten ones taken away and others put in their 

 places. No one who has not undertaken such a work can begin to realize how 

 much care and attention it takes to keep up such a collection. Our tables and fix- 

 tures are pure white and gold, and very nicely adapted to the display of both jars 

 and fresh fruits, but in order to keep this in good shape and clean, calls for con- 

 stant care and attention. About eight or ten barrels of apples are taken out each 

 week or so, and an entire chaoge is made in our fruits on the tables. Thus far we 



