112 ANNUAL REPORT 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



SECOND DAY. 



President Sias recommended that ex-Lieut. Gov. Norman J. 

 Coleman, of Missouri, and R. L. Cottrell, of Dover Center, Minne- 

 sota, be made honorary life members of this society. 



The Secfetary sug.ffested that F. K. Phenix, of Delavan, Wis- 

 consin, the author of the elaborate paper on Seedling Fruits in 

 our last report, be included in the list, which was agreed to, and 

 the three gentlemen named were then unaminously elected. 



President Smith then took the stand, upon invitation, and de- 

 livered his address as per program. 



ADDRESS ON MABKET GABDENING. 



By J. M. Smith, op Green Bay, Wis. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 



I suppose that when your president and a few friends united 

 together and invited me to deliver an address before you upon the 

 above-named subject, they expected me to tell you something that 

 would be both practical and useful. I shall certainly attempt 

 nothing else. Whether I shall succeed in that or not remains to 

 be proven. 



In my remarks it is very probable that I may refer quite often 

 to my own experiments, my successes, my failures, etc. In so doing 



