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President Green : It seems impossible to get a report from 

 that committee now. 



Mr. Brown : Then; is another committc^e that is here that 

 is prepared to report, and that is the committee to make the 

 exhibit at Council iJluffs and the business end of this affair 

 can be reported on now. 1 understand that Mr. Christy 

 wants to go home at noon. 



President Green: We will now listen to the report of the 

 committee on exhibits at Council Bluffs. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO MAKE 

 EXHIBITS AT THE HORTICULTURAL CON- 

 GRESS AT COUNCIL BLUFFS, lA. 



BY G. A. MARSHALL, CHAIRMAN. 



Mr. President, and Gentlemen : 



The Society decided at last summer's meeting that we 

 could not a (ford to let that Congress pass over without having 

 an exhibit there. We feJt that we would have to spend a good 

 deal of money there and on the other hand we did not want to 

 spend so mucli. So finally |200 was set aside and it was left 

 to the Board of Directors to use its judgment how to proceed 

 with the exhibit, and whether we should set aside more money 

 at the September meeting. We finally decided to set aside 

 |300 for that purpose and appointed a committee of three to 

 look after this exhibit. This committee was Mr. Brown. 

 Mr. Christy and myself and we engaged Mr. Barnard to gather 

 up this exhibit and take care of it. He gathered up the exhibit 

 and installed it, with the help of our Secretary in the latter 

 part of the work. The largest entry was for the best State 

 Horticultural Society exhibit. We won that prize, which is 

 this cup here (indicating). By the way, the base of it is 

 down at the University. The next prize won was this gold 

 medal (indicating) for the most artistic display. The next 

 prize was this cup (indicating). We got that for the best 



