It is greatly to our credit to discover or introduce a new frui 
plant. Although itis not attended with so great dangers as is t 
the flight of Andree in his balloon to discover the North Pole, st: 
there is danger that the law will not protect the interests of the in 
troducer in his rights, while any little device of a mechanical nature 
that may not have required much time or sacrifice is fully protectec 
to the person who discovers it. Would it not be well for our society 
REPORT ON PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. 
F. W. KIMBALL, 
AL hor SUSE. Committee. 
D. T. WHEATON, 
To the Members of the State Horticultural Society: 
Your committee on the president’s address beg leave to say, that — rs 
F, the short time elapsing between the delivery of the address and the — ‘ 
report of the committee is hardly ample to do full justice toa pro- 
duction so good and able, and would recommend that in the future 
| the president’s address should come earlier in the sessions. We 
congratulate the society upon its increased membership, and, we ~ 
: believe, upon its increased usefulness and upon the able manner in Be 
f° which its affairs have been managed during the year, and would feel — “4 a 
if that the society can do no less than thank all its officersforthe 
parts they have taken. x: a 
4 We would recommend that the secretary and executive board be ; 
% asked to continue to use their best efforts toward the passing of a pe 
bill in our legislature for the suppression of the San José scale,and x 
: also that it is due the state that every member use his efforts toward © eo 
the same cause. oe 
We would recommend that the secretary be instructed to invite ag 
i the American Pomological Society to hold its next meeting in our ae . 
© state. Be, om 
‘K In that the impressions of youth largely govern after life, and Se iG 
A that impressions of beauty are lasting in their effects, we would hee ae 
recommend that our executive committee be requested to urge on ie . 
any sh 
i our next legislature a law compelling the setting and maintaining ; a 
: of trees, shrubbery and flowers in every schoolyard in the state. g ae 
if We would recommend that our secretary be instructed to corres- 
é: pond with the American Pomological Society and all state horticul- 
tural societies to the end that suitable national legislation may be ~ 
obtained to protect all originators of new fruits or flowers, 
