92 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



CONCLUSION. 



So many things seem to crowd us to report upon that it is im- 

 possible for us to touch them all, or even a small part of them, but 

 we know that we are stepping- gradually but surely onward and up- 

 ward. We have of course to go over the same ground again and again, 

 but yet we must take upon us many new parts of labor in order to 

 the best advancement of the horticultural interests of our society and 

 our State. 



It is not only the fruit interest that alone we wish to take hold of, 

 but the transportation problem, the flower interests of our florists, 

 which are also growing to immense proportions, our nursery interests, 

 our ornamental tree planting and forestry. 



So a step was made by the Executive committee, and Prof. Kern 

 was authorized to go to Springfield and lay out the grounds of Drury 

 college. This beautifying all our public grounds cannot be too highly 

 recommended. 



Planting, planting, planting, continually planting, is the rule of the 

 horticulturist, and when we can have all our public grounds well 

 planted and cared for we will take pride in this work. 



I cannot refrain from noticing the planting which has been done 

 around your beautiful city of Brookfield. All around and over your 

 lovely city we find that the true lover of trees has been before us — 

 these elms, sugar maples, white ash, larch, pines, spruce, maple, catalpa, 

 bespeak a cultured and refined people, while the yards and gardens, 

 the roses and vines, the house plants and flower beds, are a sure pho- 

 pfiesy of a happy people and pleasant homes, which the Americans so 

 much love". 



I warrant that this city has a live, enterprising, pushing class of 

 citizens, stepping onward in sure and steady strides to the future when 

 there will be many thousands to occupy these beautiful hills and lovely 

 vales. 



Dear friends, we cannot be too proud of Missouri when we look 

 over such a grand, glorious, delightful, happy land as lies before us 

 from every hill top all about us. I only wish that thousands of our 

 Eastern, Northern and Southern people could but see this beauty about 

 us as we now see it. 



I wish I could take them to the tops of the hills here and tell them 

 " to look about you," and I am sure no one could fail to be moved by 

 the magnificent panorama. 



In my life- time I have been in over twenty different States, from the 

 Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Northern 



