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citizens because of this development. They liked to visit Kansas City 

 and felt a friendly welcome when they came. The citizens of Kansas 

 City in their successful efforts to build up a great city had not neglected 

 the esthetic in its development, and he thought in the matter of attractive 

 homes, in the beautifying of residence grounds, in which there seemed 

 to be a unity of design which he commended, Kansas City surpassed 

 most cities. 



The music with which the exercises were interspersed at the even- 

 ing services, consisting of a cornet, a violin and a piano, was very fine 

 and was a most enjoyable feature. 



RESPONSE TO ADDRESS O'F WELCOME AT KAjNSAS CITY 



MEETING. 



(By President Whitten.) 



Ladies and Gentlemen — In behalf of the Horticultural Society, it is 

 my privilege to express our grateful appreciation of the very kind 

 hospitality with which we have been received here in annual convention. 

 This Society has many ties which bind us to Kansas City and vicinity. 

 The words of welcome from the President of the Missouri Valley Horti- 

 cultural Society leads me to say that the State Horticultural Society has 

 been helped and built up by the Missouri Valley Horticultural Society, 

 whose membership and whose efforts have so long centered about Kan- 

 sas City and vicinity. Many of the experiences which have been most 

 helpful to us as an organization have been the experiences worked out 

 by members of the Missouri Valley Society as members of our own So- 

 ciety. 



In coming to Kansas City we come to a center whose horticultural 

 interests are large and which is the home of many of the most active 

 members of this organization. Consequently we feel at home. Kansas 

 City has done much to stimulate our horticultural interests in many 

 ways. One I want especially to mention, in grateful appreciation of 

 what this city has done in one particular line of horticulture that marks 

 it as a splendid example to most other cities. I refer to the work in 

 the ornamental phase of horticulture, or landscape gardening, in which 

 Kansas City has set an advanced pace. The park system and the boule- 

 vard system, the planting of the residence district, the shade trees on the 

 streets and the beautifying of what would be waste places, has been 

 given an impetus in Kansas City such as few other cities in the State 

 can boast of. In any large city we will find beautiful homes, we will 

 find at least well planted parks, we will find individual instances of good 



