THIRTY-THIRD BIENNIAL SESSION 
mg series of sports of Rome Beauty. Interesting and instructive. 
The Douglas pear, exhibited by A. H. Griesa, Kansas. Worthy of further 
trial. 
(Signed) G. B. BRACKETT, 
W. R. LAZENBY, 
S’ A. BEACH. 
INVITATIONS FOR 1915 SESSION. 
President Goodman: Invitations to hold our next meeting with them 
have been tendered by the following cities: Atlanta, Buffalo, Columbus, 
Denver, Galveston, Nashville, Niagara Falls, New York City, Saint Louis,, 
and San Francisco. As we have with us a representative from San Firan- 
cisco we shall be pleased to hear from him. 
Mr. Barr: Representing the Panama-Pacific Exposition, and the col- 
lege of Agriculture of the University of California, I take very great pleasure 
to-day in extending to you a cordial invitation to hold your 1915 meeting 
in either San Francisco or Berkeley, and to see the sights of the San Fran- 
cisco Exposition. 
In just two or three minutes I would like to indicate to you the things 
that are worth while at the Exposition, where the Palace of Horticulture 
is one of the eleven exhibit departments. It will be impressive there, if 
for no other reason than because California is such a great horticultural 
state. The Palace of Horticulture will be 320 x 672 feet in dimensions and 
will cover about five acres. The great glass dome 165 feet high will be one 
of the striking features of the exhibit palaces. It seems to me that those 
five acres of exhibits in the palace, with some 50 acres on the outside, will 
make it worth while for you to come to California in 1915. We are very 
mindful and particular that in the general scheme there is made a proper 
correlation as between the exhibits on the one hand and the environment 
or premises on the other. 
Very many scientific bodies that will come to California in 1915 will 
have committees of experts make a survey of the exhibits, to the end that 
a good outline may be sent to all of the members before they come to Cali- 
fornia. In the same way, some of the societies will make such survey of 
the state as may apply to their particular work. For instance, a committee 
of members of an association like this might prepare a map showing where 
to find some of the apple orchards, orange groves, vineyards, walnut plant- 
ings, etc.; where to obtain the best views, and how best to see these things. 
You might buy your tickets in advance and so have it all arranged with 
only the expense here and there upon the trip and no further expense for 
transportation. If you decide to come with us to the Exposition, you will 
find the matter of transportation yrell arranged and very suitable places 
there for all conveniences and protection. 
A few minutes ago the Society for Horticultural Science passed a reso- 
lution recommending to their executive committee that their 1915 meeting 
be held in San Francisco or Berkeley; and I may say that up to This morning 
