THE TREASURER’S REPORT. 
After the minutes of the last annual meeting were read the Treasurer’s report was 
presented as follows : 
RECEIPTS. | EXPENDITURE. 
$ 6c Sic 
Balance on hand last audit............ } 231.86 || Plant distribution: ./..>..... 4 0... see 291 86 
MWieinburs’ fees “57s (ose e ee co eles | 2,012 35 || Canadian Horticulturist.............. 1,598 OL 
Government grant .2)....5..00 20.2 -000. | 1,800 00 || Chromo lithographs ............. ... 233 00 
PACA VOFLISCMMONES Jee aaatintrs fines swe s bee 5 296) 87 :||;;Blectrotypes’ Aceens cin e.cvnce eee 73 78 
Back numbers and bound volumes of || Directors’ expensés .........5. 5 00s =e 464 36 
the Canadian Horticulturist....... 43°18 || Express'anddutyl-.\--2.---uu teens 230 45 
Patty Teceipterc esos tees.) ene eek aes 1 17 || Printing and stationery ........... . 76 38 
Postage and telegrams 85 61 
Comimissions:2)..3.0c. 0. @ aon deeeeiee 85 08 
Care of rooms at meetings ......... 12 60 
Stenoprapner!. ss emen ree ae . anaie 128 15 
IDisGoants whe ..k.. sev chu eee oe 14 05 
Hxchanges 5 sap sec ce «ieee Savers 4 60 
Advertising meetings .-........ -.. 3 00 
Salary Secretary-Treasurer, Editor and 
ofeeclerk’, 2.22 Seo ae ate 1,000 00 
Balance on /hand<,..<</o:<..scpeese eee 84 50 
4,385 43 | 4,385 48 
To the President and Directors of the Fruit Growers Association : 
GENTLEMEN,— We, the undersigned, appointed to audit the receipts and disbursements of the Secre- 
tary-Treasurer for the year ending December, 1890, beg to present the following report : 
We have examined the vouchers, compared them with the items of expenditure, and find them 
correct, showing a balance deposited in the Canadian Bank of Commerce, Hamilton, of $84.50. 
; Your auditors wish to bear testimony to the careful manner in which the books of the Association ~ 
are kept. 
JAS. GOLDIE, ; 
+ ML. DENTON, | Avditors. 
HAMILTON, December 16th, 1890. 
Upon motion the treasurer’s statement and the audit thereof were duly adopted. 
THE PRESIDENTS ANNUAL ADDRESS. 
(¢ENTLEMEN,—In pursuance of a time-honored custom it becomes my duty to review 
the labors of another year, or in other words to give an account of our stewardship, and 
to present some thoughts upon horticultural topics that may be of interest. Although 
the origin and advancement of our association has frequently been alluded to in the 
annual addresses of my predecessors in office, I feel that it would not be out of place in 
again meeting here in the birthplace of our society, to glance a little farther back than 
over the year which has just passed, to the time when our existence began and note 
the progress and advancement we have made. 
Nearly thirty-two years ago, or, on the 19th of January, 1859, in the board room of 
the Mechanic’s Hall in this city, was organized what was then called the Fru t Growers’ 
Association for Upper Canada; which name was afterwards changed to the Fruit 
Growers’ Association of Ontario. The late Judge Campbell of Niagara was its first 
President He died within a year and there was no re-election of officers till the 16th of 
