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484 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
“The President and Vice-Presidents shall hold their office for one 
year, and the Treasurer shall hold his office for three years.” 
Article 10._-Amend the seventh sentence of Article 10 by inserting 
after the word “society,” in the first line of said sentence, the words. 
“ After the adjournment of an annual meeting.” 
O. F. BRAND. 
The President: We will sow listen to the report of the com> 
mittee on credentials. 
The committee on credentials reported the following dele 
gates entitled to seats in the convention: 
A. Bryant, of Princeton, Ili., vice-president Northern Illinois 
Horticultural Society, to represent the Illinois State Horticul 
tural Society. 
W. A. Burnap, delegate from the N. E. Iowa Horticultural 
Society. 
George H. Van Houten, Lenox, Ia, Secretary lowa State 
Horticultural Society, to represent that society. 
M. J. Wragg, delegate from Iowa State Horticultural Society, 
Waukee, Iowa. 
The President: We are glad to welcome these delegates to 
our society. Some of you are here for tke first time, but we 
trust you will feel just as much at home as though you had 
been with us every year. We would like to hear a few words 
from our visiting delegates, and I take pleasure, ladies and 
gentlemen, in introducing to you Mr. Bryant, of the Iilinois 
State Horticultural Society. 
Mr. Bryant (Illinois): Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: I 
wish to say that my credentials are lacking, as our secretary has 
been a little slow in forwarding them, but I presume they will be 
here before the meeting is over. Iam very happy to meet with this 
society. We have had a number of delegates from your society, but 
I have never had the pleasure of meeting with you before. 
The President: I now have the pleasure of introducing Mr. 
W. E. Burnap, from the Northeastern lowa Horticultural So- 
ciety. 
Mr. Burnap (Iowa): If there was any one thing that we boys who 
used to wear brass buttons admired, it was courage. It was not 
that courage that used to induce the boys to make a reckless dash 
and get lost so it would take a detail of men to find them, but the 
courage that kept them in the field, though their companions 
dropped by their sides; and when the lines wavered and almost 
broke we would pass the word along the line, “Steady, boys, steady, 
we will thrash them yet.” Our courage was intensified when we 
were in the same line of battle, because we knew when the front line 
was whipped or dropped out we would have to take their places. I 
feel a good deal that way now in the horticultural battle that we are 
