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Horticulture. Our proceediags go out in the newspapers; they will 

 publish them every year, and won't charge one cent for doing it. 

 There are perhaps twenty-five thousand families that our proceedings 

 will reach by this means, and by subscriptions the number may be 

 largely increased. 



Mr. Pearce. I think there is more general information gathered 

 from the press than from any other source. Local societies should be 

 established over the State, with good live members, their transactions 

 and proceedings published in the local papers would attract public 

 attention and interest; and in connection with that, a few good 

 lecturers, posted on the subjects on which they speak, would do more 

 to disseminate a knowledge of horticulture and educate the people in 

 the growing of the various fruits than all the books that are published. 

 Books might be piled up here to be sent free on application, and there 

 wouldn't one man out of a hundred ever call for them. It is only 

 those specially interested that would call for these publications. But 

 if a public lecture is given in a town, with proper billed notice given, 

 and a hall procured, the house would be filled and in all probability 

 right there a local society would be established. We want to spend 

 a little money in the way of lecturing; I don't believe it could be 

 spent in any better way. 



President Smith. I would call the Society to order. Mr. Smith's 

 resolution has not met with a second; it is not properly before the 

 Society. 



Mr. Pearce. I will second the motion merely to get it before the 

 house. 



Mr. Cutler took the chair, and President Smith moved as an amend- 

 ment to the motion that the unexpended balance now in the treasury 

 be placed as a contingent fund in the hands of the Treasurer. 



The motion was seconded. 



Mr. Underwood. It seems to me that the latter motion utterly de- 

 stroys the former. I don't think it would be proper to pass upon a 

 resolution that completely wipes out the resolution under considera- 

 tion. 



Col. Stevens. Do I understand the original mover accepts the 

 amendment to the resolution? 



Mr. Smith. No, I don't see any relevancy. 



President Smith. From the reading of the resolution, as it was 

 originally put, it would leave our treasury destitute. It is bad policy 

 to get in debt. And we cannot possibly foretell what expenses six 



