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delegate from the Nebraska society this year. We have heard 

 from Rev. Harrison several times this meeting. Have you any- 

 thing further to say? (Laughter.) 



Mr. Harrison : I can simply bring you the greetings of the 

 Nebraska society to your own society, and this society is some- 

 thing they can look up — and look up quite a ways, too. 



A Voice : Amen. 



Mr. Harrison : Your membership is large compared to ours. 

 I don't know how many there are of us. I don't pay much atten- 

 tion to that. My chief interest is up here. Something would go 

 out of my life if I couldn't be here and spend a few days with 

 you. You are the best fellows on earth, I love you and can't 

 get along without you. The memory of this lasts through the 

 year, and I look forward to these visits every year. I don't 

 know for how long the Lord will need my life for His work. I 

 have been studying the mission of beauty and it is a great sub- 

 ject. I am getting ready to prepare a book on this subject, the 

 "Mission of Beauty." I want to leave horticulture and flori- 

 culture and go out into the open where I can sometimes ponder 

 upon the mighty God's high places. 



A Voice : Halleluiah. 



Mr. Harrison : What is the use of groveling and crawling 

 when you can rise on the wings of eagles? When I get this 

 book out I want you to get it. I have tried to do some good for 

 you and when you get this book it is not simply on my own 

 account, I want to do you some good. (Applause.) 



The President: Professor Brodrick of the Manitoba Agri- 

 cultural College favored us with a very fine address this fore- 

 noon. I don't know whether you knew who the gentleman was, 

 and I am going to ask him to come forward. I know there are a 

 great many here at the present time who haven't met him. Pro- 

 fessor Brodrick, we would like a word from you. (Professor 

 Brodrick is not present.) I have just learned that Mr. Wesley 

 Greene, secretary of the Iowa Horticultural Society has been 

 with us. If he is in the audience room we will ask him to 

 please come forward. (Applause.) 



Mr. Greene : Mr. Chairman and ladies and gentlemen : 

 It is certainly a great pleasure to meet with you. I have heard 

 considerable of your society. It is said that those who live near 

 the North Pole have more pep in them than those who live near 

 the tropics, because it is necessary that they put forth greater 

 energy to accomplish the object of their hopes than it is farther 

 south. Perhaps that is the reason why you are more energetic 

 up here. You work harder to accomplish the objects you want. 

 I come from a little farther south. 



We are interested in one thing, and that is, we want a little 

 legislation. The thing is in the air not only in Iowa but in Illi- 

 nois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Virginia. They are all 

 making an effort to establish a standard grade of fruits. I want 

 to impress it upon you people here in the north, if you haven't 



