THIRTY-THIRD BIENNIAL SESSION 
2 / l 
We have reached the time for annual meetings. I made the same 
statement at Tampa. An organization that assumes to occupy the position 
of leader In an industry that is changing and developing as fast as the 
fruit growing interests of these two great nations are, will die ctf exhaus- 
tion in an effort to keep up with the progress, if it rests satisfied with bien- 
nial meetings. To lead it? save the thought! — with biennial business meet- 
ings. 
Now a word about the bulletin. Its sole purpose now is to enable the 
secretary to keep in touch with the members, ft is ndt for general public 
distribution; nor is it for the purpose of purveying general horticultural 
information. It is just a society organ for the purpose of keeping us all in 
touch with what the members and the society are doing. We had hoped 
through it to find out who are actually members, that is whether you were 
dead or alive, but in this respect it has not been a success, for at this 
meeting I find we are carrying men on our rolls that have been dead for ten 
to twenty-three years and others who have held high office and yet have 
not paid a membership fee for six years! We shall try to end all that with 
the next report. 
Discussion. 
President Goodman: Our Secretary looks to me like a man who can 
make things go when he takes hold of them; and I think if he can get the 
support of the Society, so far as the members can give their support, and 
the different organizations connected with us in fruit growing and fruit in- 
terests, something can surely be done. He has certainly waked us up and 
waked up eight Agricultural Colleges also. It seems to me the thing for 
him to do is to outline some plan by which we can take hold of the prob- 
lem, and then say: “I want you to do thus and so,” we can then start 
toward the consummation. He thought the Executive Committee would 
outline all that plan. But to take all of these affairs; to do the work con- 
nected with this program, and to settle these great ideas that he has out- 
lined, was just absolutely impossible. We of the Executive Committee, 
the Vice-President and the Treasurer and the Chairman of the Executive 
Committee, were somewhat at a loss to know just what to do; and the Sec- 
retary was too busy with other matters to give us any of his time. There 
has been too much to do at this meeting. I would like to have the Sec- 
retary outline a plan of action. What do you say, Mr. Taber? 
Mr. Taber: I think so — be an autocrat and say what we shall do. 
Prof. Hume: There are some things the Secretary needs; he needs 
clerical assistance; and mainly, is needed the wherewith to work. I do not 
know what our present financial conditions are, and I am not prepared to 
make a motion, but I am desirous of seeing something done towards a 
bigger and better service. What amount of money would provide the neces- 
sary machinery for it? 
Secretary Lake: Well really I cannot answer that. Professor. We have 
quite a little balance in our treasury, but we do not need to vote any money 
for the Secretary now. I am looking to the future. I would have means 
to permit us to grow as fast as the industry requires it — lead it, in fact. 
Reorganize the society on a more comprehensive basis, and get men of 
