4th January, A. D. 1906. 

 ADDRESS 



BY 



O. B. HAD WEN, President. 



At the incoming of the new year we have come together to 

 renew our interest in our winter course of lectures and discus- 

 sions and to manifest our fidelity to the Horticultural Society 

 and our deep interest in everything that concerns its usefulness 

 and welfare. 



The interest in our exhibitions the past year has been well 

 advanced in fruits, flowers and vegetables. New features are 

 yearly manifest denoting the skill and science of improving 

 cultivation. 



There never was more rapid progress made in Horticulture 

 in the country than has been during the life of this Society. 



To refer to the production of new fruits and new flowers, so 

 rapidly brought into notice of late years by the new process of 

 hybridization, also to the vegetables, unknown when this Society 

 was formed, which now are seen upon our tables and furnish 

 good and nutritious food to our families, would intrude upon 

 your patience. 



At this opening of the year, let me extend to you the most 

 cordial greetings and best wishes for our continued prosperity. 



The work of the Society for the past year, we can see, has 

 made important progress. 



Our lectures and discussions upon Horticultural topics, our 

 exhibitions of fruits, flowers and vegetables, have never been 

 more mteresting and instructive, and the improving taste in 

 arrangement is especially manifest of good training in the happy 

 blending of flowers and plants at our Chrysanthemum Show. 



