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land, Tennessee and Indiana, two each; 

 District of Columbia, Florida, Maryland, 

 and Massachusetts, three each; Alabama, 

 California, Maine, New York and Vir 

 ginia, four each; South Carolina, Ave; 

 Georgia, seven; Ohio and Illinois, eight 

 each; Pennsylvania, fifteen; North Caro 

 Una, sixteen. 



From the foregoing it will be seen 

 that, notwithstanding the disadvantage 

 of having moved our renter of activity 

 from the thronged Pan-American to re- 

 mote Ashevillc with its scattered con- 

 stituency, our society is in fairly pros- 

 perous circumstances as to funds, mem- 

 bership and general activity along legit- 

 imate lines. It is especially gratifying 

 to note that the life membership list is 

 steadily lengthening and its permanent 

 fund approaching dimensions where the 

 accruing annual interest amounts to a 

 substantial sum. 



We should not, however, lose sight of 

 the fact that, considering the number 

 of people engaged in horticultural pur- 

 suits in the United States, our member- 

 ship is disappointingly small and our 

 sphere of usefulness consequently limit- 

 ed. We should have a life membership 

 of at least 1,000 and an annual list of 

 twice that number. How shall we at 

 tain it' Thus far all expedients for 

 acquiring the consistent allegiance of the 

 thousands of prosperous llorists of our 

 country have produced but minor re- 

 sults and when such services as we have 

 been able to give this year prove inef- 

 fectual, whither shall we turn .' 



In closing this report permit me to ex- 

 press the hope that the results of this 

 convention will justify all the unselfish. 



knowledge, of these or other plants, 

 simply taking the members' word in 

 such matters. Mr. Wallace asked if ii 

 is not a fact that the peonies in ques- 

 tion are a Japanese set previously dis- 

 tributed under native names. The secre- 

 tary replied that if such were known to 

 be the case when notice of provisional 

 registration was given, the member 

 should have given the society the benefit 

 of his knoweldge at that time, that the 

 secretary had no option in the matter. 

 Mr. Wallace said he had no desire to at- 

 tack the secretary, but that the peonies 

 were not competent for registration as 

 they are not, in his opinion, new sorts, 

 and moved that that part of the report 

 relating to this subject be laid on the 

 table until such time as it can be Bhowi 

 that these varieties have not previously 

 been distributed under other names. The 

 motion prevailed and the balance of tin 

 report was adopted. 



Treasurer's Report. 



The treasurer reported as follows: 



In the life membership fund there is 

 $2,223.04. 



Judges of Trade Exhibits. 



Judges of the trade exhibits were up 

 pointed as follows: 



Class A — Plants: A. Ferguson. De- 

 troit; Henry Young. St. Louis; YV. t,. 

 Palinsky, Chicago; 11. Papworth, New 



Orleans; Otto Spiedel, O mi. .no.-. 



Wis. 



(lass B — Cut flowers: A. II. Lang- 

 jahr, Brooklyn; Jno. Sibsou, Philadel- 

 phia; B. G-. cillett, Cincinnati; A. F. 

 Barbe, Kansas City. 



class C— Boilers: Lemuel Ball, Wis. 

 sinoming, Philadelphia; J. M. Clnsser. 

 Cleveland; J. T. Temple, Davenport. 



Class P — Appliances: J. S. Wilson, 

 Western Springs, 111.; W. A. Kennedy, 

 Milwaukee; II. M. Altiek, Dayton, O. ' 



Class E— Supplies: W. F. Kastinp. 

 Buffalo; C. C. Pollworth, Milwaukee; 

 .In... W.st, ,.it, Philadelphia. 



Class F— Bulbs: Wm. Currie, Mil- 

 waukee; August Poehlmann, Chicago; 

 Jno. Farquhar, Boston. 



Communications and Amendments. 



Several eommunii 

 laid on the table 

 presidents ' reports 

 ordered printed vs 

 the legislative 



he state vice- 

 presented and 

 reading. For 

 John N. May 

 ted a report on the matter of ex- 

 press rates and the society voted its 

 thanks for the good work done. 



For the peony committee George I 

 \\:ii -hi presented a report which ' 

 stated was no more than his personal 

 statement, the committee not having had 

 a meeting recently. He detailed what 

 the committee had done and stated that 

 it had acted on the supposition that it 

 had "power to add to its number" until 

 the matter was questioned, when it 

 • eased active operations until the will of 

 the society could be ascertained. Pat- 

 rick O'Mara moved that the committee 

 be continued with power to add to : ' 

 number and the motion prevailed unani- 

 mously. 



William Scott, for the committee on 

 .loser relations, presented the following 

 draft of an amendment to the constitu- 

 tion : 

 Closer Relations with Kindred Societies 

 ,i pera 



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A Part of the>*Biydr>iorfer & Co. Exhibit at the Milwa-jkje Convjntion. 



