92 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Watkins: I am one of the committee on pomology. I have found 

 men who wish to make exhibits, or collect them, and they ask me if the 

 expenses thereof (they willingly give their time) will be paid. I ask Mr. 

 Woodman, what will be paid? 



Mr. Woodman: I will not attempt to answer. I have no authority to 

 say. Let this society recommend a superintendent, who will be put in 

 charge by the commission and he may go ahead and make arrangements 

 and expenditures. 



Mr. Watkins: Men of that kind are scarce and if one is found he must 

 be paid. He can not be secured for nothing. 



Mr. Woodman: I shall leave tomorrow morning, and I ask to be advised 

 then of any action that may have been taken. 



A paper upon the general subject of the World's Fair exhibit was here 

 read by Mr. A. G. Gulley. 



MR. LYON WAXES EMPHATIC. 



Mr. Lyon: I doubt if any one suspects I would not assume any 

 responsibility belonging to me in this matter. Had I understood the sit- 

 uation to be different from what I have described, I most certainly would 

 have acted. I believed it was the duty of the committee to gather the 

 exhibit, and some one to have charge would be appointed afterward. 

 When Mr. Woodman came to me'with different instructions from those I 

 had received explicitly from Mr. Weston, it was too late for all but the 

 very latest peaches. And such has been the trouble all through. The 

 commission is not "up" in its business enough to understand when to act, 

 nor how. I understood all the while that the commission would appoint a 

 superintendent at Chicago when the time of need of such a person came. 

 Not in all cases, either, has the commission's plan of auditing been pursued 

 by the state: for in two cases at least has this society been given the 

 expenditure of such a fund. 



Mr. W. W. Fabnsvvorth, secretary of the Ohio Horticultural society: 

 Our state commission turned their horticultural exhibit wholly over to our 

 society, and we have the expenditure of the state fund of $8,000. 



Chairman Garfield: This society has not been recognized in the 

 slightest degree by the state commission, and use of the word "society" by 

 Mr. Woodman is done unadvisedly. Discussion of the subject here is 

 tolerated only because some members of the commission are also members 

 of the society. 



similar situation in new YORK. 



Mr. S. D. WiLLARD of Geneva, N. Y. : We have had much the same 

 trouble in New York. I insisted, before the commission, upon an appro- 



