REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 49 



special mention of Mr. Hesser's as deserving more than passing no- 

 tice and we recommend a premium of $5 to be paid him. 

 (Signed) D. U. Reed. 



G. W. Alexander, 

 C. G. Laing. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON NECROLOGY. 



Mr. Carpenter, chairman of the committee, spoke as follows : 



Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of the Nebraska State Horticult- 

 ural Society : The much dreaded enemy — Death — has again invaded 

 our ranks and plucked the ripest sheaf, not only from our society, 

 but from nearly all the leading horticultural societies of this coun- 

 try and Europe — for Patrick Barry was known and honored wher- 

 ever advanced horticulture exists; and no other man will be more 

 sadly missed ; for, although he had passed over the allotted time that 

 men live by several years, his mental faculties were as bright at the 

 time of his death as they were when he first entered the ranks, over 

 fifty years ago. Even to his very last hours he took an active inter- 

 est in the pursuit he had so successfully followed through life. It 

 mattered not in which line he labored, whether as editor, author, or 

 nurseryman, he was the very soul of honor. 



The knowledge that a tree, a shrub, or flower came from his nur- 

 sery was always a sufficient guarantee of its genuineness. 



As a horticultural writer few equalled and none surpassed him ; as 

 a collector of trees, plants, and shrubs he had no peer. At the time 

 of his death he had the finest private collection in America. No true 

 horticulturist could ask a more noble monument than his arboratum 

 — which alone shows his greatness. 



As a financier he was a success, as he left one of the largest for- 

 tunes in western New York. To him, more than to any other, does 

 Rochester owe her beauty and prosperity, and in his death she loses 

 her noblest son and horticulture its greatest leader, 



The Committee on Resolutions on the death of Hon. Samuel Bar- 

 nard reported as follows : 

 • 4 



