100 state Horticnltural Society. 



I believe it would also be a good plan to send copies to 20 

 or 30 of the prominent members and ask them to write to the Ex- 

 ecutive Committee and ask them to favor Kansas City. If you will 

 have this done at once it will assure us of the meeting. 



And we secured the meeting. 



For your information, and that you may know that each and 

 every act of the Society and its Executive Committee has been for 

 the best interests of the State and the upbuilding of our Society, 

 this statement has been prepared. 



The Executive Committee has always had a business meeting 

 at every annual and semi-annual gathering, and everything then 

 before the Society has been considered. 



The officers have always asked for advice, assistance and co- 

 operation in every enterprise, in every movement, in every step 

 of our gradual development, and have secured the hearty support 

 of the members, without which we would never have succeeded as 

 we have. 



There are times between our sessions when it is necessary for 

 this committee to act, and act at once, which they do for the best 

 interests of all. Notably, an instance is the meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Pomological Society in Kansas City last September. The Ex- 

 ecutive Committee is elected for this purpose, and its actions are 

 always for the Society and our best interests at all times. 



No society, no institution, no church or company, no bank, no 

 State Horticultural Society can be handled in the best manner, nor 

 ever has been managed successfully, without an Executive Com- 

 mittee. 



Our articles of incorporation require this committee, and the 

 transaction of all its business must be done through this commit- 

 tee. The success of the State Society during the last twenty-five 

 years has been due to the faithful and earnest work of this Ex- 

 ecutive Committee, and the members who have stood loyally by on 

 all occasions. 



N. J. Colman, Z. S. Ragan, S. M. Tracy, J. C. Evans, N. F. 

 Murray, D. S. Holman, Saml. Miller, A, Nelson, C. W. Murtfeldt, 

 D. A. Robnett, G. T. Tippin, W. G. Gano, J. A. Durkes, C. M. 

 Stark, E. P. Henry, C. H. Butcher, W. T. Flournoy, T. H. Todd, A. 

 T. Nelson, M. Butterfield and L. A. Goodman constitute the mem- 

 bers of this Executive Committee during the last 25 years. 



The work of the Society would of times never be done if this 

 committee (frequently at their great inconvenience) did not do 

 what was needed to be done at the proper time. 



