130 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



A Talk . 



Prof. Lawrence Bruner, Entomologist, University of 



Nebraska 

 Methods of Investigating Plant Diseases 



Prof. P. D. Heald, University of Nebraska 



Progress of Fruit Culture in Kearney County 



.- - D. C. Bliss, Minden 



Thursday, January 19th, 9:00 a. m. 



Diseases Arising from Improper Pruning • 



Frank Williams, Tecumseh 



Evergreens Best Adapted to Nebraska C. S. Harrison, York 



Reminiscences of Early Horticulture in Nebraska 



Hon. R. W. Furnas, Brownville 



Pears J. A. Shroyer, Humboldt 



Reports from Delegates to other Societies 



Reports from Experimental Stations. 



PRESroENT Christy: The annual meeting of the Nebraska 

 State Horticultural Society w^ill nov^r come to order. The ad- 

 dress of v^elcome will be delivered by Prof. A. E. Davisson of 

 the School of Agriculture. 



ADDRESS OP WELCOME BEFORE THE STATE 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



BY PROFESSOR A. E. DA^^SSON 



Professor Davisson. Mr. President, Members of the Nebraska 

 ITorticultural Society, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is a very pleasant 

 task, that of welcoming the State Horticultural Society to the 

 University Farm. But I cannot see why I should have been 

 selected to deliver this address of welcome, for so far as a 

 knowledge of Horticulture is concerned, I am in much the same 

 position as the man was when he went to church. A revival 

 meeting was being carried on, and at the close of the service, 

 the minister said, "All who want to go to Heaven, stand up." 

 They all stood up but this one man who was about two-thirds 

 asleep at the time. Then he said, "All who want to go to Per- 



