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the State Horticultural Society, I wisli to assure you we appreciate the 

 welcome extended to our members. And I can guarantee that no act 

 of any of our members will ever cause the people of York to regret our 

 gathering here. The great majority of our horticulturists are engaged 

 in the work for the added pleasures it brings to the home of Nebraska, 

 and men engaged in a work of sacrifice for the love of the wife and 

 children at home were never known to paint a city "red." The ruler 

 of old made a magnifiicent garden by proxy and the money to carry on 

 the worlv filched from his subjects. 



Our horticulturists put their intellect, their own bone and sinew, 

 and their own money into the gardens and orchards to please their 

 lady love, with a love purer and truer than that of any ancient noble, 

 ruler or potentate, and — we thank the Lord — for more appreciative 

 wives. 



We have admired and been interested in the amount of work done 

 by the citizens of York to beautify the homes, and this work speaks 

 volumes for the intelligence and morals of your people. While it is a 

 great pleasure to the older people of York to view the beauties of the 

 Park, I believe you will receive even greater benefits from an educa- 

 tional feature for your children. To be able to call all the trees, vines, 

 and shrubs by name is the ambition of every child that loves nature. 



To know and to admire the stately elm in all his natural glory is 

 of far more value to the youthful mind than to learn the cold fact from 

 books that the elm is a deciduous tree or that it is oxogenous. 



We admire the work you have begun and wish to encourage you to 

 still greater efforts to beautify your city. Time, money, and labor will 

 be required before you reach your ideal; donate liberally the last two 

 necessities and you will surely be given the first in abundance. 



Again thanking you for your cordial welcome, we will pass on to 

 the next part of our program. 



GREETING. 



By Geo. P. Corcoran, President York Commercial Club. 



Mr. President, Ladies aud Gentlemen: I think about the best 

 thing I could do would be to say amen to what our mayor has said. I 

 just want to say, that while we are busy, we are glad to have you 

 here. You are welcome among us. I hope this will be a pleasant meet- 

 ing for you. 



On behalf of the Commercial Club, I want to welcome you to our 

 city. We have some comfortable rooms just across the street, and you 

 are welcome there at any time. The people of York are glad to have 

 you here. As our mayor has said, we have done some horticultural 

 work here in York, and this is really not a very bad place. All the work 



