SUMMER MEETING AT OREGON. Ill 



of bad company .and make home more agreeable than an\- other place 

 on earth. 



To plant a bed of ever blooming roses, make a circular bed six feet 

 in diameter, which will hold about fifty roses. They will begin to bloom 

 almost as soon as set out and continue to bloom till late frosts cut them 

 down. After freezing weather sets in they can be taken up and packed 

 in a box with a little dirt sifted among the roots, and put in the cellar 

 until spring, when they can be re-set and bloom as before. 



This is the season for flowers and everyone who has a bed of roses 

 can pluck a bouquet every day. What is more beautiful ? What gives 

 us more pleasure than to look at these beautiful buds and flowers with 

 their sweet fragrance filling the air ? They remind us of the infant child 

 budding and opening into manhood. They remind us of death as they 

 fade awav. 



Bring flowers to cheer the festive board, 



Bring flowers — -the bride is near; 

 Bring flowers to cheer the captive's cell; 

 Bring flowers to strew the bier. 



And then, as the last token of respect w^hen earth can do no more, 

 we strew the lonely grave with flowers, or plant a lonely bush that will 

 forever bloom. 



Then President Murray introduced the old veteran, the hero of 

 many generations, Jessie Welch, who gave a violin exhibition in the old 

 plantation style. He is the help-mate of Dr. Goslin, and helps that 

 dignitary " raise strawberries with a spoon." Following this pleasant 

 and attractive feature. Miss Cora Frye, with her usual skill, gave a reci- 

 tation that delighted the audience and maintained her well merited 

 reputation. At the close of her performance, Dr. Goslin presented her 

 with a beautiful gold breast-pin, set in garnets, as a token of good will, 

 because of her repeated services to the Holt County Horticultural 

 Society. Maggie Perkins and Prof. Horn closed the session with a mag- 

 nificient instrumental selection from the organ and violin. The session 

 was instructive and interesting throughout. 



