18 Missouri State Horticultwal Society. 



Cherries for profit have been cut down to about two varieties. 

 Early Richmond and English Morello, the latter bearing a full crop 

 and uninjured by the cold winter — the former some damaged but 

 bearing a fair crop of fruit. 



Respectfully submitted, 



D. F. EMRY, 

 Chairman of Committee. 



President Laws, of the State University, entering the room, he 

 was called upon by Prest. Tracy to address the society. 



PREST. LAWS' ADDRESS. 



Fellow Citizens and Members of the Missouri Horticultural 



Association : 



I have been present at several previous meetings of your body, 

 but am present on this occasion quite unexpectedly. I am on my 

 way to the commencement of that department of the Missouri 

 University located at Rolla. I mean the mining school. The 

 general commencement of the University occurred at Columbia 

 last Thursday, but the commencement of this particular depart- 

 ment always takes place a week later, so as to make it practicable 

 for any one to attend at both places. Dr. Morrison, the worthy 

 president of Drury College of Springfield, placed us under obliga- 

 tions at the University this year by delivering for the classes of 

 1884 their Baccalaureate discourse, and with marked satisfaction to 

 all who heard it. It was whilst he was at Columbia as my guest, 

 and your townsman. Judge J. C. Cravens, the vice-president of the 

 Board of University C^urators was attending its meeting, that I 

 concluded, on their kind and courteous invitation, to come by 

 Springfield and sojourn with them a day. This is my day of 

 sojourn here and on learning that it is your day of meeting here, I 

 have improved the opportunity of visiting your association once 

 more. 



It certainly must be gratifying to every citizen of Missouri to 

 see the enterprise of your organization. By thus assembling from 

 time to time, and by going from place to place, you educate each 

 other in your chosen line of work and you also educate the com- 

 munity to a higher appreciation of it. It is for this benefit to the 

 public at large, no doubt that your meetings are peripatetic. If 

 the man who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one has 

 grown, for the food of beasts, can be pronounced a benefactor, much 



