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their fruit better care nud euitiue aud are spraying more 

 thoroughly than in the past. The space devoted to tioral 

 displays was crowded on account of more florists exJiibiting 

 than for a number of years. However, the plants and flowers 

 were all staged in a creditable manner and the showing was 

 very good. 



The executive board at its July meeting arranged to exhibit 

 Nebraska fruit at the National Horticultural Congress at 

 Council Blutfs, Iowa, November 15 to 20, 1909. C. H. Barn- 

 ard was secured by the committee to gather the fruit and 

 make the exhibit. Tomorrow morning Mr. Barnard will make 

 a report to the Society on Nebraska's showing at this con- 

 gress. 



More extensive advertising of the Society and its work has 

 been attempted recently through the Secretary's office. The 

 newspaper mailing list has been enlarged, and to these papers 

 a digest of each bulletin issued by the Society, consisting of 

 from 200 to 500 words with attractive headings is being 

 mailed. It is thought that more publications will publish 

 this horticultural information when it is "boiled" down in 

 this form than would if they are compelled to publish the 

 whole of the bulletin or take the time to extract certain parts 

 of it. A short letter in the form of a notice telling of the 

 organization, its work, etc., is also being distributed. Many 

 of our annual reports are distributed at farmers' institutes, 

 and one of these notices is inserted in each report. 



During the past year we have added to our membership 

 list 44 members ; 36 annual and 8 life. We have lost by death 

 one of Nebraska's pioneer horticulturists and a charter mem^ 

 ber of this Society, J. H. Masters of Otoe county. 



The following amounts have been received in cash by the 

 Secretaries duririg the year and turned over to the Treasurer ! 



Membership fees, by L. M. Russell | 29 00 



Membership fees, by C. G. Marshall 46 00 



Fruit sold at State Fair 68 00 



