PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Indiana Horticultural Society. 



Midsummer Meeting at Franklin, 

 August 12 and 13, 



1902. 



MORNING SESSION. 



The ludiana State Horticultural Society, by invitation received from 

 the Johnson County Horticultural Society, met at Franklin, Johnson 

 County, on Tuesday and Wednesday, August 12-13, 1902. The Johnson 

 County Fair Association had suitably adorned their Floral Hall and the 



day sessions were held there, and the evening session at — Hall, in 



the city. 



President Stevens called the meeting to order at 10 o'clock a. m., and 

 introduced Mr. J. W. Nixon, Mayor, who, in the following words, gave 

 the Society and its members welcome: 



Visiting Members of the State Horticultural Society of Indiana: 



Ladies and Gentlemen— It gives me great pleasure to extend to you, 

 in behalf of the citizens of Franklin, a most hearty welcome. You repre- 

 sent the most ancient and honorable of vocations. More than sixty cen- 

 turies old, coeval with man himself and approved of God, as he planted 

 the first garden eastward in Eden and placed Adam and Eve therein; 

 but Eve's curiosity and Adam's susceptibility led to the disorganization 

 of this first horticultural society, and gave birth to its twin sister, agricul- 

 ture, and since the line of demarcation between the two has been illy 

 defined. Among the grand galaxy of names emblazoned upon the world's 

 history, none shine brighter than many of the devotees of horticulture. 

 While you have an Adam, Noah, Elisha, Amos, Naboth, Boaz, Burns, 

 Washington, and the Minute Men of the Revolution, who fought from 



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