186 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



It now only remains for me, in the name of the people of Lebanon 

 and Laclede county, to extend to you our old-fashioned grasp of friend- 

 ship, the pump-handle and the pendulum shake. Glad to see you ; make 

 yourselves at home. 



REPLY OF PRESIDENT J. 0. EVANS. 



We are disappointed to-night, for we expected the Hon. N. J. 

 Colman. He permitted his name to go on the program, and so we did 

 not make any other provision to fill that place on the program. I will 

 call upon a gentleman to say a few words — our old and honored friend, 

 the Treasurer of this society. 



Mr. Holman — I thank you for the honor and the pleasure of say- 

 ing a few words. I shall not attempt to respond to the very able 

 address so flty made on this occasion. 



Ladies and gentlemen of Laclede county, allow me to say for 

 the Missouri State Horticultural society, we thank you most heartily 

 for the kind words so well expressed by Mr. Bradfield. It is our first 

 meeting here, but we knew we would be welcome. We came to learn 

 and to teach ; and the missionary spirit is mutual between the society 

 and you. That we come to a land adapted to horticulture is shown by 

 such apples as these before me. We come to consult with you, to ex- 

 change ideas with you, a mutual exercise profitable to us both. We 

 come to talk to the point. I give place to the paper to be read by our 

 Secretary. That will tell you more good than I could tell you in a 

 whole evening. We thank you again for your kind welcome. 



President Evans — I ask the Secretary to read a paper not pre- 

 pared for this meeting, but I think it is well adapted to this meeting. 



Vocal quartette — " Peter Piper, Pumpkin Eater." 



Paper read by Secretary Goodman. 



THE WORE OF THE MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL 



SOCIETY, 



AND THE HORTICULTURAL OUTLOOK. 



The work consists first in organization; organize, organize for 

 mutual benefit and improvement. Too much of our time, money and 

 energy is spent in the wrong direction. If we could all act in accord, 

 one taking one part, one another, and each doing his work systematic- 

 ally and judiciously, and then report them to some headquarters, you 

 can imagine what a saving it would be. We need our State well or- 

 ganized, each county well represented, each prominent fruit-grower 

 well posted in all the affairs of the State, working in unison and 



