WOIU'MSTEI! COUNTY 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



4th January, A. D. 1896. 



A 1) I) \l K S S 



O. B. IIADWEN, Pkesidiont, 



At tiiio Opkmn<; of the Winteu CouitsE of MEi<ynN(!s fok 

 Essays and Discussion. 



In discharging the duty incumbent upon mc at (ho opening of 

 the winter series of meetings of our Horticultural Society, I do 

 so with some misgivings, that at least in some de[)artmenls of 

 Horticultural interests 1 am not capable to speak within the 

 scope to which our discoveries and advancement have attained. 



The winter meetings are proving of greater benefit to our 

 members from year to year. They bring together, weekly, men 

 and women animated with the one prominent desire, the 

 advanccMucnt of [)ractical and scientific horticulture ; and so 

 long as this })olicy is [)ursucd, so long will we advance in the 

 successful and relining pursuits of the garden and orchard, and 

 maintain the fostering source to disseminate the knowledjre and 

 science pertaining to horticulture and its kindred callings. 



Following the early annual work of the Society, the wecskly 

 exhibitions of fruits, Mowers and vegetables in their respective 

 seasons during the early si)ring, summer, .and autunm, bring 

 to our hall contributions of the highest merit and excellence. 



The products of one advanced in the knowledge and science 

 of his specialty, is always an object lesson, which stimulates the 



