303 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The meetings of our sister states are occurring now each week. At 

 the same date of our meeting, the Kansas State Society and the Indi- 

 ana State Society meet, the one at Hutchinson, Kas., and the other at 

 Indianapolis, Ind. A telegram of greeting has been sent to each. 



The Illinois and Iowa societies meet next week, one at Alton and 

 the other at Council Bluffs. Some one should attend if possible. 



The knowledge we have gained in horticulture the last few years we 

 owe to our societies and the agitation of the question; and questions of 

 great importance which our scientists are now taking up gives us the 

 belief that we are advancing year by year in this knowledge and that 

 this knowledge is doing us good. 



Now then, dear friends and members. I can but congratulate you 

 on the success of our society. We have worked together with an earn- 

 est will, hearts full of love for our cause, an unbounded enthusiasm, and 

 with a perfect unity. As long as we follow in this plan of working just 

 so long will we be successful and no longer. It takes but little discord 

 and friction to create a disturbance and a little bad seed sown causes trou- 

 ble. The wonderful opportunities of our state for development will give us 

 all the we can do for years to come. Our state is not a state in which 

 only a small portion of it is adapted to horticulture, but from the very 

 northernmost point to the very southern limit, from the east to the west, 

 all over our grand old state we have the land and climate which will 

 give beautiful returns if but properly developed. 



The last and best made state (geographically) of the union offers 

 to you and to every earnest worker of all the other states, the best op- 

 portunity of their lives. No state of nearly 300 miles north and south 

 and east and west can begin to offer the horticulturist such a rich field 

 for labor. 



'• Let us go up and possess the land for we be able to occupy it." 



L. A. GOODMAN, Secretary. 



