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deemed wise, which will guide us to advanced horticulture, are 

 better than more lectures too hastily constructed. 



If subjects which will be of most benefit to our horticulturists 

 are selected early and submitted for the careful study of those 

 who ai*e at work for us in our Experiment Stations, combining 

 science with practice, I am sure their professors will be glad to 

 use our platform to make known their conclusions, and to meet 

 our horticulturists in a mutual exchange of opinions afterwards. 



I am sure that your officers and committees are all most 

 sincerely interested to promote our Avork in a way that will be 

 most effective ; but I know that they are hampered b}- the condi- 

 tions that now surround them. 



If I have appeared to have spoken at too great length, and to 

 have spoken too frankly to the minds of any, I assure you that 

 it is only with a view towards the best interests of what we are 

 all here to work for. 



The address was received Avith applause, and on motion of Ex- 

 President William H. Spooner it was voted that the President 

 be requested to furnish a copy for publication. 



The following appropriations, recommended by the Executive 

 Committee on Saturday, the 2d of jSTovember, 1895, came up for 

 final action and were unanimously voted, viz. : 



For Prizes and Gratuities : 



For Plants 

 For Flowers 

 For Fruits 

 For Vegetables . 

 For Gardens 



$2,000 



2,600 



1,800 



1,150 



500 



$8,050 



Total for Prizes and Gratuities for the year 1896 

 For the Committee on Lectures and Publication, this sum 

 to include the income of $50 from the John Lewis 

 Kussell Fund 300 



The Executive Committee further recommended the following 

 appropriations, which Avere also unanimously voted, viz. : 



For the salaries of the Secretary and Librarian, and the 



Treasurer and Superintendent of the Building . . $3,000 



For the Committee of Arrangements, this sum to cover 



all extraordinary expenses of said Committee . . 400 



