78 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Thursday Forenoo>' Session. 



9 : 00 Co-operative Spraying 



Prof. R. F. Howard. Uni. of Nebraska, Lincoln 



How We Grow Apples 



Henry C. Smith, Forest Hill Fruit Farm, Falls City 



Tendencies in Horticultural Practice Val Keyser, Lincoln 



Horticultural Suggestions J. A. Yager, Fremont 



Question Box. 



Thuesday Afternoon. 



APPLE JUDGING CONTEST. 



2:00 Pro Rata Premium ^ $100.00 



Open to members of the society who have not been members 

 for more than three years. Four plates each of ten standard 

 winter varieties will be used for this contest. The contestants 

 will rank the four plates of each variety 1, 2, 3, and 4, according 

 to their merits and note the apples of each variety substituted. 

 The premium money will be prorated among those scoring more 

 than 60 points out of a possible 100. Any one may become a 

 member by payment of $1 for annual membership or $5 for life 

 membership. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



DR. E. MEAD WILCOX, UNH^RSITY OF NEBItASKA. 



Mr. President, Members of the State Horticultural Society, Ladies 

 and Gentlemen: I am a beginner in the art of making addresses of 

 welcome and so I shall afford you neither the luxury of an oration nor 

 trouble you with the length of it, such as formerly accompanied an 

 address of this character. My immediate predecessor, in welcoming the 

 State Horticultural Society to the city of Lincoln and to the University 

 has set an example which I feel that I can scarcely imitate in either 

 sound sense or authorized statements of profit to the society. There 

 are three items missing from addresses of this sort: According to my 

 knowledge of the olden times it appears to have been, in a measure, the 

 intention that all men engage in one sort of horticultural work — garden- 

 ing. So man and his first wife were established in the Garden of Eden, 

 and we find they proved somewhat of a failure, and that original horti- 

 cultural enterprise collapsed, more or less, and man was sent out to ac- 

 quire some more knowledge, and to engage in some more simple occupa- 

 tion, altogether more primitive. 



So horticulturists have been looking for knowledge all these years, 

 and I am accustomed to say to myself, and sometimes I have gotten bold 

 enough to say it out loud, that in many ways this is the most intelligent 

 body of men that could be gathered together in any city — a representa- 

 tive gathering of people engaged in horticultural work. I think you 

 will find the fact is quite close to being true to say that horticulture is 



