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that you will do the best you can for us who consume the- 

 finished product." 



President Whitney : ' ' We appreciate the honor that yoa 

 confer upon us and to show our appreciation we meet here 

 every year. While we hold other meetings elsewhere, we 

 never hold our annual meeting anywhere but here." 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS 



We meet here to renew our fellowship, to receive fresb 

 enthusiasm for our work, to encourage and instruct each 

 other in the art of beautifying and improving the heritage 

 our Heavenly Father has given us. One of the most profit- 

 able as well as pleasant features of meetings of this kind 

 is that we get acquainted with each other. There is noth- 

 ing like personal contact with men to take the conceit out 

 of us. We learn that we don't know quite everything that 

 is of value in the real human knowledge and experience. 

 Narrow views of a subject are likely to be broadened when 

 measured with the views of other men who are thinking 011 

 the same subject, or engaged in the same line of investiga- 

 tion. Crude ideas cannot but be polished a little when 

 rubbed against the ideas of our fellow-workers. More can 

 be accomplished by meeting and exchanging ideas than 

 could be by each one hermit-like working out his theories 

 alone; hence these meetings ought to be largely attended. 

 The benefits cannot be measured by dollars and cents that it 

 takes to get here. Every impetus given to the growing of 

 fruit, flowers and garden products will bless our state for 

 generations yet unborn. 



We are glad at this time to be able to meet so many 

 delegates from our sister states and hope that our coming 

 together will be mutually beneficial and that you, one and 

 all, will be able to take back with you some thought, or 

 have learned some lesson from our mistakes, that will be 

 of value to you in your work. We give you a cordial wel- 

 come and invite you to join with us in our discussions. We 

 assure you that we feel honored by your presence. We are 

 glad to meet the new members who have recently joined this 

 Society and hope they will find it to their interest to become 

 permanent members. We not only gather at these annual 

 meetings to greet old friends and talk over our se-ason's. ex- 



