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noise of the street will not make the voice of the speaker indistinctly 

 heard. We anticipate a grand meeting in your city, and shall be very 

 glad to meet you all and get better acquainted. 

 Yours Respectfully, 



CHAS. A. GREEN, Sec'y. 



Prof. Green : The idea is that all the members of this society 

 should have a badge to represent them, and in talking this over 

 we thought this society should act as entertainers. 



Pres. Elliot: I would say that I have sent a communication 

 to our park board to get them interested, and we are also tak- 

 ing steps to get the chamber of commerce interested, and our 

 mayor here, I think, can be interested in the meeting of this 

 association, and I think there will be no trouble about sending 

 them an invitation, and it will not be of any cost to our society. 

 I think our citizens are public spirited enough to provide for 

 the hall, and I think there will be measures taken soon to do 

 that. 



M. Cutler: Is there such a hall that can be obtained here in 

 the city? 



President Elliot: I think there will be no trouble in securing 

 a suitable hall, even if we should have to get them to go to the 

 Coliseum. They prefer, however, to have their hall in the im- 

 mediate vicinity of the hotels. 



fin. Somerville: Do they expect to make an exhibit? 



President Elliot: None that I understand. 



J. M. Underwood: At their last meeting in New York, their 

 rooms were right in the hotel. They found it very convenient 

 and satisfactory to have quiet rooms in the hotel. Then their 

 members do not^become scattered. This is a gathering of nur- 

 serymen from all over the United States. They are a wide- 

 awake, enthusiastic body of men, and their meeting will be a 

 very important one. They discuss topics of great interest, and 

 the whole meeting will be a very interesting one. They have 

 auxiliary societies, but the main society is the one that has been 

 mentioned, and I think our members will find pleasure in meet- 

 ing these nurserymen from all over the United States — Ohio, 

 Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, in fact, from almost every 

 state in the Union. 



Geo. J. Kellogg: Not only from the United States, but from 

 Canada and Europe. 



President Elliot: I would suggest that a committee of three 

 be appointed to take this matter in hand and act for the society. 



Mr. Cutler made a motion to this effect which was seconded 

 and carried. 



