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The President: I will appoint as a committee to audit these reports, 

 J. A. Yager, R. F. Howard, and E. W. Dole. 

 Jan. Iti, 1912. 



AUDITING COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 



We, the iiienibers of the committee appointed to examine and report 

 on the Secretary's and Treasurer's reports, beg to say that we find them 

 correct. 



J. A. YAGER, 

 R. F. HOWARD, 

 EDW. W. DOLE. 

 Accepted. 



If there is no further business to come before this meeting we will 

 now^ adjourn, but before we ad.iourn I wish to call your attention to the 

 Horticultural Banquet to be held this evening at the Lindell Hotel, and 

 trust you will all secure your tickets. 



Meeting thereupon adjourned to meet tomorrow (Wednesday) morn- 

 ing at 9:00 A.M. 



MORNINU SESSION 

 Wednesday, January 17, 1912. 



STATE FLORISTS SOCIETY'S SESSION. 

 Pres. C. H. Green in the Chair. 



President Green: I want to call your attention to the question box. 

 If there are any questions you want to ask just make a note of them on 

 a slip of paper, and as soon as the papers are finished we will take them 

 up for discussion. Anything that you want to know, or information that 

 you think you can get in the way of greenhouses, or greenhouse culture, 

 or anything of that kind. The first subject will be "The object of grow- 

 ing flowers," by Lewis Henderson, of Omaha. 



THE OBJECT OF GROWING FLOWERS. 

 Lewis Henderson, Omaha. 



Mr. President and members of the State Florists' Society and State Hor- 

 ticultural Society: 

 What is the object of growing flowers, or why do we grow flowers? 

 I have puzzled my heart many times afier some hard day's work among 

 them, when the results seem so small, the leaves are dropping off, with 

 the sprouts coming blind and only a few flowers, when the cold blasts are 

 sweeping by and the raging of the elements, the hail storm and frost 

 seem to have full control of heavens and the earth. Why do we go to all 



