POMOLOGY, GARDENING, FORESTRY, HORTICULTnRE, RURAL ARCHITECTURE, BIE8. 



Vol. II. Des Moines, Iowa; Leavenworth, Kan., July, 1871. 



No. 



MARK MILLER, 

 Eiitor and Publisher, ■ - Des Moines^ Iowa. 



m. J. STAYMAN. 



AttocUUe Editor. 



Leavenworth, Kansas. 



DK, WM. M. HOWSLEY, 

 Corretponding Editor, - Leavenworth, Kansas, 



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Kansas State Hortlcnitnral Society. 



Pirsl Snmmer Annual Meeting, at Highland, June iith <t 71 h. 1871 

 By the Associate Editor. 



The Society met at 9 a. m., at the University chap- 

 el. The meeting was called to order by the Presi- 

 detit, Dr. W. M. Howsley, of Leavenworth. 



Prayer hy Rev. S. M. Irvin, of Highland. Music 

 by choir. Welcoming address hj Rev. M. McCon- 

 nell, of Highland. Response by Prof Mudge, of 

 Manhattan. Music. 



Address by the President, which was listened to 

 by a large and intelligent audience, and was well 

 received, and then submitted to a committee to re- 

 port on it, consisting of Messrs. Hall, Snyder, and 

 McConnell. Mr. W. Trevett, of Highland, was in 

 the absence of Mr. Brackett, appointed Secretary, 

 pro tern. 



ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT HOWSLEY. 



The Kansas State Horticultural Society was or- 

 ganized at the city of Lawrence on the 10th day of 

 December, 1867. It has since held three annual 

 sessions — one at Leavenworth city, in December, 

 1868 ; one at the city of Ottawa in December, 1869, 

 and the last one at the city of Manhattan, in Decem- 

 ber, 1870. 



At the last meeting the constitution was so 

 amended as to provide for a semi-annual meeting, 

 to be held in the month of June of each year. The 

 session which we now propose to hold, is the first 

 semi-annual one which will have been held of this 

 kind in Kansas. 



You will see from the printed programme which 

 has been prepared by the executive board, what is 

 the usual order of business, and the subjects which 

 are deemed of most interest for discussion. 



As our field of operation covers the whole ground 

 of Horticulture, embracing the cultivation of fruits, 

 Jlower.i, and culenary vegetables, from the germina- 

 tion of the seed to the final completion of the crops, 

 it was found, that to have a single meeting in the 

 year, and that usually in the dead of winter, a very 

 large and interesting proportion of our friends, the 

 ladies, were cut oft" from having any participation in 

 the displays and discussions of those subjects most 

 thrillingly interesting to them. A summer meet- 

 ing, therefore, is the very thing needed, that our 

 female friends may have ample scope for all their 

 ambition in the display of the earlier garden fruits, 

 vegetables, and above all, of flowers This is the 

 season of the strawberry and the rose. The former 

 the Prince of summer-heTries, and the latter the 

 Prince of summer-GoiveTS. These standing each at 

 the head of the list in its class, is followed by all 

 the fruits and flowers of their sea.son — a single 

 annual meeting would virtually exclude, not only 

 the display of those fruits and flowers from our 

 tables, but would in like manner deprive us of the 

 presence and the aid of our fair friends, who add so 

 much to the interest of all such occasions. 



It is hoped, therefore, that every lady and every 



