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complimentary for the meeting; seventh, complimentary for life; all of 
these to be by vote of the Society at a regular meeting. 
Surely united action with the State Societies means closer friend- 
ship; better combinations; more direct results; prevention of duplication. 
Combination with the State Agricultural Colleges and State Experiment 
Stations will mean a great central unity of power and influence that would 
give splendid effect to all that would be said or done, or written. Then 
finally, if a closer union could be made with the greatest single power in our 
land, the Department of Agriculture in all it has to do, and yet maintain our 
individuality of membership scattered all over America, the influence and 
power and responsibility and standing of this old Society would combine in 
one United Society where all are working together, heart and hand and 
brain, for the cause of Pomology, and we would be like the tree planted 
by the poet: “Canst thou prophesy, little tree, what the glories of thy boughs 
shall be?” 
Money, money, money. Our membership should be 1 , 000 , 1 , 500 , 2 , 000 . 
The old membership should not be changed perhaps, but the suggestion 
that various memberships be arranged from $2.00 to $500.00 or $1,000.00 is a 
good one if it can be worked out well, and followed faithfully. The sug- 
gestion that we “try for the Carnegie Foundation” is a fine one, and a com- 
mittee will be appointed to take this item and press it to the good end. 
We must, in our efforts, provide to meet the changes and modifications* 
demanded by our changed conditions, which these times seem to justify and 
require. 
I am sure I cannot say too much in commendation of Professor Beach 
in his task of getting together a report from every State of the Union, and 
every country identified with our Society. I wrote him some months ago to 
see if it could be done, for it never had been done, and we should have a 
record report. 
I wish to commend also the work of the Ad Interim committee, for so 
much depends on it during the time the Society is not in session. 
The committee on New Fruits has a job that keeps it busy at| times 
during the year, and the great number of New Fruits continually coming 
before us need the services of a good, steady, level headed, and efficient 
committee. 
No easy task has the Committee on Nomenclature, for from it we ex- 
pect a settlement of our various mixtures of names. 
The Score Card Committee will finally settle this plan of judging to 
the satisfaction of us all, and I am truly thankful that we have had such a 
fine test of team-work from our Agricultural Colleges in the presence of 
these teams in this judging contest. 
Other committees stand ready to do their work, but I shall not at this 
time mention more of them, but commend them all for what they have done, 
but much more for what we expect them to do. 
And now, finally as to the suggestion that the Secretary’s office be an 
“office of service” for all who wish to get information or advice, or in- 
struction in any department of the fruit business. Think of the wonderful 
opportunities that are at hand here in Washington to answer all sorts of in- 
quiries upon all kinds of subjects; varieties, new fruits, entomology, in- 
