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that the society had the fullest confidence in those who had so 
faithfully served them in the past. At the election many new faces 
were seen, and it is to be hoped that among them were some whose 
interest in the real purposes and prosperity of the society will not 
have ceased with the session they then attended. 
GEO. H. VAN HOUTEN, LENOX, IA., 
Secretary Iowa State Horticultural Society. 
The program of the meeting has already appeared in these pages, 
and fuller reports will follow, but it will not be amiss to record the 
pleasure which was afforded those who attended the evening ses- 
sion on Thursday and listened to the words and music contributed 
by guests from the State Agricultural School, as arranged by Prof. 
S. B. Green, and afterwards, both by eye and ear, learned of the work 
of the year as presented by that genial professor. 
Probably the pleasantest incident of the session was the presenta- 
tion to the society, with a few appropriate remarks by Oliver Gibbs, 
