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I like to attend these horticultural meetings because I get a great 

 deal of valuable information every time I attend, and I can see by 

 looking over this audience that there are many men here who are in 

 a position to impart a great deal of information. It is something 

 like going to school, and it is a good thing to go to school. I have 

 not attended school very much in my lifetime, but there is one school 

 I consider superior to most schools, and that is the school of ex- 

 perience, and when I come to a horticultural meeting and look over 

 the audience sprinkled with gray heads, I know they have been 

 through that school of experience and that I can learn somettiing 

 from them. Some of them have already passed beyond the gates, 

 but they have left the record of their experience behind them, but 

 many of them are still with us and we have the privilege of hearing 

 their many and varied experiences from their own lips, and I know 

 we shall all profit thereby. Another thing I wish to say before I 

 close, and that is to urge the young people to attend these meetings. 

 If they intend to follow horticulture as a pleasure or as a business 

 pursuit they can secure no more valuable information anywhere than 

 they can by attending these meetings. I have said much more than 

 I ought to have said, and I need not say to you that I am glad to 

 be here, and that I trust we may have a very profitable meeting. 

 (Applause.) 



The President : I think it is a very rare occurrence that we have 

 the pleasure of meeting a delegate from Nebraska in our annual 

 gathering, but we have that privilege today. We all know some of 

 the Nebraska horticulturists and know something about their work, 

 but those who are not acquainted with any other representative of 

 Nebraska horticulture will remember the name of Rev. C. S. Harri- 

 son, of York," Neb., who in both the spiritual and horticultural field 

 was a missionary, who was once a resident of our own state, and 

 whom I take pleasure in introducing as the "uilver tongued" ex- 

 ponent of good horticulture. 



Rev. C. S. Harrison (Neb-.) : I also am sent as a, delegate from 

 the Nebraska Horticultural Socii^ty, and I bring you greetings from 

 our great state of Nebraska. 1 hope I shall have a pleasant time 

 with you. 



The President : We have another representative from South 

 Dakota, whom we regard, however, more as belonging to us than 

 to our sister state. A meeting of this society without the presence 

 of Prof. Hansen would be like the play of Hamlet with Hamlet left 

 out. Prof. Hansen, we want to hear a word from you. 



Prof. Hansen (S. D.) : In behalf of South Dakota I wish to 

 present to you Mr. Bentz who will tell you all you want to know. 

 It pays him to come over here and listen to these gray heads and 

 white heads and other colored heads who relate their experiences, 

 and it always pays me to come, and if I can add anything in the way 

 of our South Dakota horticultural experience I shall be happy to 

 do so. 



The President : I think this concludes the list of delegates and 

 visitors we have had reported to us, and I trust they will all feel 

 perfectly at home, take part fully and freely in our discussions and 

 enjoy themselves as much as possible. 



