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bring about a revolution in this matter, so that in the future horti- 

 culture will stand for clean fields and businesslike methods. 



While we are improving in the more solid and necessary mat- 

 ters we may also begin to copy more of the beauty that is spread out 

 so lavishly all about us. The bloom on the grape, the winsome 

 blush on the peach and apple, the prairie flower and autumn's 

 gorgeous landscape, in unmistaken language reveal the mind of the 

 great Exemplar. Shall his works all speak beauty and ours tell of 

 nothing but bare utility? We have in a great measure emerged 

 from the pioneer period, doubt and discouragement are giving place 

 to security and strength, and we may now attempt much that was 

 lately beyond our reach. We may now add to our strength beauty, 

 and with the ability comes the duty. We may no longer allow our 

 parks to languish, our cemeteries to lie waste, our lawns to be un- 

 kept, our homes flowerless. As we go forth from this inspiring gath- 

 ering to plan the work of a new year we will each in his own domain 

 make fresh endeavor to lift the banner of horticulture to new in- 

 fluence, usefulness and honor. 



Mr. Oliver Gibbs : Fellow members, the remarks made by our 

 president in his address regarding the future of this society have 

 again brought to my mind a thought tliat occurred to me yesterday, 

 and I will now embody that thought in a motion. It seems to me 

 the society has now reached a growth that may well cause us to feel 

 some alarm lest at no distant day it may grow so large as to break 

 of its own weight into fragments unless something can be done by 

 the foresighted ones in this society to avoid the occurrence of any- 

 thing that may look like disaster or a retrograde movement. It 

 seems to me there is one thing we may do now that may be a prac- 

 tical undertaking and which may avoid that danger, and that is to 

 consider well the matter of establishing a permanent home in a suit- 

 able building for this society, and for that purpose and with that 

 end in view I would like to make this motion : That a committee 

 consisting of three or five members, with C. M. Loring as its chair- 

 man, shall be appointed by the president to take that matter under 

 consideration, and to report in the future, either to the executive 

 board or to the society direct. 



Mr. Elliot : I want to second that motion, and in doing so I want 

 to say that I think we have been drifting around long enough. 

 While we are accommodated very comfortably here at the present 

 meeting, heretofore our accommodations were very inadequate, and 

 I hope this motion will meet the approval of the members and that 

 it vv^ill prevail. 



Mr. Frank Yahnke : I have been out with the institute corps 

 throughout the state, and I find the sentiment in favor of fruit grow- 

 ing much stronger than many of us have any idea of. There is 

 an increase in the desire for fruit, and there is an increase in the 

 amount of fruit grown, and the people are very anxious to know 



