ANNUAL MEETING AT NEVADA. 357 



REPORT FROM GREENE COUNTY HORTICULTURAL 



SOCIETY. 



BY D. S. HOLMAN, SECRETARY. 



Springfield, Mo., Dec. i, 1888. 

 Missouri State Horticiiltural Society, Officers and Members : 



Persuant to custom and law, we come now with our County Socie- 

 ty's report to your body in annual session, at Nevada, and bespeak for 

 your society a meeting every way among your best, if not the very best. 



The Green County Society has little to report, outside our usual 

 order of short reports. There have however, been some new departures 

 with us this year. About the usual number of old workers, with a few 

 new ones added, have worked right on through this another year, most har- 

 moniously and we think rather successfully. Have done more work than 

 experementing and testing the comparative merits of small fruits, and 

 especially new varieties, and the value of best methods of combatting 

 our enemies in the orchards, etc., and think we have reached some con- 

 clusions that may be valuable to us in future practice. We have as a 

 society, given more time, labor and money to exhibitions of our county's 

 home grown fruits on several occasions, than in any former year, and we 

 hope not without some good results. While we have invested or expend- 

 ed more money than formerly, we have a little better balance than be- 

 fore. The seasons of '88 have been favorable to our fruit business, and 

 encouraging and helpful to our society's work. The horticultural field is 

 widening and brightening around us, and we have resolved to still go 

 forward; do some. new helpful work every year, if possible. 



We have lost one of our best workers and safest counsellors during 

 the year, whose place will be hard to fill, in his line of work. We refer to 

 Mr W. M. Hopkins, who came to us from the Missouri Valley Horticul- 

 tural Society, did us good friendly service, and made of us all his abiding 

 friends, who mourn his decease. 



