ANNUAL MEETING, 1899. 485 
ing the Northeastern Iowa Horticultural Society, and Mr. W. J. 
Reeves, representing the Northwestern Iowa Horticultural Society. 
The President: I have the pleasure of introducing our visitors 
from Iowa, and I will first introduce Mr. Burnap. 
Mr. W. A. Burnap (Iowa): I am glad to be with you again. 
You have a very interesting program, and I hope to participate with 
you in discussing it. As I know your work will be crowded I real- 
ize that silence is golden at this time on my part. I expect to en- 
joy the meeting and know I[ will be well treated from the experience 
I had two years ago. 
The President: Thank you, Mr. Burnap. We will now ask 
Mr. Reeves to say a few words to us. 
Mr. W. J. Reeves (Iowa): This is my first visit with you, and 
I come as a learner and not as a talker. I was promised I would 
not be called upon, but the first thing I know I am asked to say 
something. This is my first visit to your city and almost to your 
state, and I am pleased to be with you. I did not expect to come 
until yesterday at 12 o’clock. If I can add anything of interest as 
we pass along I shall be glad to do so. I was looking for orchards 
from the train on the way up here yesterday, and I did not see any- 
thing but hay stacks, but this morning I noticed quite a display of 
fruit on the tables in the other room, and | shall be glad to hear 
how you raise it and all about it. 
The President: We are glad to have all of thes: cielegates with 
us, and we hope to get something from you men fren: an older state 
that will be of help to us, and perhaps you might learn something 
from us, how we manage to raise a few apples in the frozen north. 
Mr. Harris: I notice Prof. Waldron, of North Dakota, is with 
us, and perhaps he can tell us how they raise apples in the banana 
belt. 
The President: We will give him, as we do the other visitors 
from abroad, a most cordial welcome, and we will call on Prof. 
Waldron to say a few words from North Dakota. 
Prof. C. B. Waldron (North Dakota): I thank you for the 
welcome extended, but I am simply here for the purpose of gather- 
ing information for the bulletin which is due this month. The state 
I represent has been doing a great deal of work in the line of tree 
planting and ornamental work, and I am particularly interested in 
that line of work. I have had the pleasure of attending these meet- 
ings from time to time the past few years and consider it a great 
pleasure. We tried i in a small way to organize a horticultural socie- 
ty in North Dakota, but the state is large, and it costs four cents 2 
mile to travel, and it is hard to get people together, and whatever 
