20 AKNUAL REPORT 



PROCEEDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS. 



E. Wilcox, of La Crosse, one of the honorary hfe members of this 

 society, and Geo. J. Kellogg, of Janesville, presented their creden- 

 tials as delegates representing the Wisconsin State Horticultural 

 Society, and were welconaed by President Harris to participation 

 in our debates and festivities, and on motion Mr. Kellogg was 

 elected an honorary member for five years. G. H. Putnam, of Ash 

 Ridge, Wisconsin, being introduced by Mr. Kellogg as a member of 

 the Wisconsin Society, was welcomed and elected in like manner. 



Mr. Wilcox, in replying to the address of welcome, spoke ol the 

 various drawbacks in horticulture — the blight, the mildew, the rot, 

 the ravages of insects and injuries from severities of seasons, that 

 have hindered us in times past. He counseled courage and perse- 

 verance, and predicted final success in fruit raising. In closing, he 

 said : "There has been an allusion by your president, and I think 

 wisely, to the absence of the young from our meetings and the ne- 

 cessity of enlisting their interest in our work. These old gray- 

 beards are soon to pass away, and we should all — members of our 

 Horticultural Societies and officers of our State Universities — take 

 hold and do our utmost to recruit the ranks and see to it that our 

 work is continued when we shall have laid down the burden." 



Mr. Kellogs said he had been a resident of Wisconsin for over 

 forty years, and that their work had been and was still almost 

 identical with that of their Minnesota brethren; the same ups and 

 downs, with only perhaps a little wider range of varieties grown, 

 and he was glad to see the feeling of harmony and co-operation 

 that is growing up between the Horticultural Societies of the two 

 states. He hoped the practice of sending delegates to each others* 

 meetings would be continued, in order that each state might have 

 the benefit of the others' work accruing from the interchange of 

 such courtesies and especially from the reports of delegates of what 

 they see and hear abroad. 



