74 ANNUA), REPOKT . 



1. Grub up all your extravagant customs and revolutionize your 

 habits, that the law of your being, a kind of second nature which 

 grows within you, may be radically changed. 



2. Break up the soil that covers your dormant brain, and eradicate 

 all the old weeds of dissatisfaction, and begin anew a more advanced 

 class of cultivation. 



3. Fertilize your minds with ambition, greater aspirations, and 

 desire for larj^er usefulness. 



4. S'^w the seeds of prosperity, success and good fortune by adopt- 

 ing the truism of one of America's most noted men: "He that by 

 the plough would thrive, himself must either hold or drive." 



5. Cultivate special attention and study of the three virtues. Faith, 

 Hope and Charity, with a view to valuable returns as payment for 

 your industry. 



6. Prune off the unnecessary sap suckers of wastefulness and prod- 

 igality that rob your business, steal your resources and bring want 

 and failure in place of success and prosperity. 



7. Cut away your needless indulgences, vices and faults, things not 

 needed in the every-day life of sensible fruit, flower and vegetable 

 raisers. 



8. Reap a harvest of happiness in the felicity of elevated percep- 

 tions and blessedness from the pursuit of social and benevolent affec- 

 tion, and the promised bliss of the great hereafter when remembrance 

 of failures, discouragements and losses will cease. 



9. Market unbounded charity and good will towards those who 

 cheat and defraud the innocent, inexperienced, upright amateurs in 

 horticultural pursuits. 



And finally, brother co-workers, when we go hence to our homes 

 and occupations, do not hide the zeal and enthusiasm here acquired, 

 but go forth with fixed purposes of faithfulness, persistency and devo- 

 tion to the cause we maintain and the principles we espouse. 



The reading of the address of President Elliot was received with 

 applause and marked approval. 



On motion of Mr. Gould, a committee of three was appointed upon 

 the recommendations of the President, as follows: G. W. Fuller, J. S. 

 Harris and A. W. Latham. 



President Elliot stated that, owing to the illness of Mr. Stubbs, 

 who was to prepare a paper on grape growing, he was not able to be 

 present to read the paper, but it would appear at the proper place in 

 the report. 



