MEETING 



OF THE 



IISSISSlPPimLEIHiTIClILIUEiLSOGim 



January 22-25, 1884. 



KOTES BY THE SECKETAKT OF THE MISSOUEI STATE HORTICUL- 



TUEAL SOCIETY. 



Upon invitation of the president, secretary and treasurer of 

 the Missouri State Horticultural Society, given last February at 

 New Orleans, the Mississipj^i Valley Horticultural Society decided 

 to hold its fifth annual meeting at Kansas City, January 22nd, 25th, 

 1884. ■ 



Agreeable to this, the Missouri State Society procured a hall, 

 ornamented it with a fine display of fruits and flowers ready for 

 the meeting. 



The meeting was without doubt the best horticultural meeting 

 for work and discussion ever held in the Mississippi Valley. 



Delegates were here from eighteen states to the number of one 

 hundred and forty. Among these were some of the most promi- 

 nent horticulturists in the west and they were all prej)ared to give 

 us something of interest to horticulture. 



The officers of the societv are : President, Parker Earle, 

 Cobden, Illinois; vice-president, E. M. Hudson, New Orleans, 

 Louisiana ; secretary, W, H. Ragan, LaFayette, Indiana ; treasurer, 

 J. C. Evans, Harlem, Missouri. 



For four davs and nights the meeting was one continued 

 success ; the interest never flagged until the close and the members 

 were loath to part and leave the work of the day. 



Some of the most important subjects of the day were presented 

 and some extracts will be given in the following pages, also some 

 of the discussions which will be of interest to us in Missouri. 

 Parts of the president's address are of immense value to us and 

 they are also given for our benefit. 



