REPORT OF EXECUTIVE BOARD. 
WYMAN ELLIOT, CHAIRMAN. 
ous condition, and your executive board desire to extend thanks to 
its members for their hearty co-operation and support in trying ° 
advance the interests of horticulture in our state, 
While our endeavors have not at all times been as successful 
projecting new and progressive plans for the future as we cou 
wish, a retrospective view of the year’s business transacted show 
that we have made effective and creditable progress in many way ; 
for usefulness along educational lines in our chosen vocations. 
Through the efforts and foresight of our very efficient secretary i 
forecasting the business of the society, he has very materially “se 
lightened the labors of the executive board and made it possible to” 
so arrarge the board meetings that the business needing our atten- ag 
tion could be transacted at times when we have had our annual, 
summer and state fair meetings, thereby very much lessening th 
expenses of the board. It will be observed by referring to the pro- — 
gram of this meeting that a new plan has been adopted for assign. ig 
ing special topics at the beginning of the year; that those who are 
to prepare papers for the next annual meeting will have ample tina 2 
to make observations and come prepared to give us the meat in a a 
cocoanut on every topic assigned. . 
When we compare the exhibitions made by the members of ou! % 
society the past year with some of the feeble efforts of previous 
years, we have great need to congratulate those who have madei 
possible to place on exhibition so many and such well grown pro 
ducts of the orchard, vineyard and garden. In these exhibitions ar 
exemplified the fruits of intelligent, industrious, painstaking, per 
sistent effort in overcoming the unfavorable conditions with whe 
they are surrounded. 
REPORT OF THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. 
WYMAN ELLIOT, CHAIRMAN. 
Your committee have expended more time and thoughtful energy __ 
the past winter on legislative work than for several years, and have 
gained but little except experience and some useful information, — 
which we hope can be utilized to good advantage in the near future 
in the interest of our society. While we have not immortalized our- 
selves as being expert lobbyists, we have placed on record the state 
horticultural society as advocating some useful restrictive legisla-— 
tion preventative of the introduction, into our state, of the dreaded 
San José scale, by the importation of nursery stock infested with it. 
This met with very sharp opposition from outside nurserymen and 
tree salesmen, as well as from some of our own home nurserymen a 
who purchase their stock anywhere and everywhere, healthy or un- 
healthy, wherever they can procure it the cheapest, and by some of 
our own (we think misguided) members. The first had a very large 
ax to grind, while in the latter case their opposition was mainly, we 
