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STATE HOETICULTURAX SOCIETY. 
work I bid you God speed. But if you would make speed, you "must work 
with system—gathering up all that has been done so that it need not be done 
over again, year after year, to the loss of time and money. We must, as 
your President told you last night, work and wait patiently until you know 
just what to recommend. This is the hardest thing for some men to do. If 
they hear that a man has set out an orchard, they expect him to sell apples 
the next day. We must set out healthy plants and watch them, and dress 
them, and prune them till they bear abundant fruit. If we adopt this sound 
sense principle the Agricultural Society, Horticultural Society and Universi¬ 
ty together will do a work worthy of the State. 
After the delivery of the address, the members again met in the Supreme 
Court room, and on motion of Mr. Lawrence, the following resolution was 
adopted, viz: 
“Whereas, recognizing in President Paul A. Chadbourne, of the Wisconsin 
State University, a man distinguished in the sciences, and a practical Hor¬ 
ticulturist ; therefore, 
“ Resolved, that he is hereby elected an honorary member of the Wisconsin 
State Horticultural Society, and he is entitled to enjoy all the privileges of 
said society by its Constitution.” 
“ Resolved, that the thanks of this Society are hereby tendered to President 
P. A. Chadbourne for his very able address, delivered before this Society, 
this evening, in the assembly hall, and that the Secretary of this Society be 
instructed to solicit a copy for publication,” 
The following communication was received from the State Agricultnral 
Society, by its secretary, Dr. J. W. Hoyt, viz : 
State Agricultural Rooms, 
February 6, 1868. 
Dr. Joseph Hobbins, Pres. State Horticultural Society : 
Sir: —In response to the proposition submitted by the committee of your 
Society on yesterday, for a joint exhibition of the State Horticultural Socie¬ 
ty with the State Agricultural Society on accasion of our Annual Exhibition 
for 1868, I have the honor, on behalf of the Executive Committee of this 
Society, to submit the accompanying terms and conditions, adopted by the said 
Executive Committee as a basis for the desired co-exhibition. 
Respectfully yours, 
J. W. HOYT, 
Secretary Wis. State Agr. Society. 
resolution op the state board op agriculture. 
Resolved, That, in consideration of the cordial co-operation of the State 
Horticultural Society, proposed by the officers thereof, we offer the following 
terms and conditions as a basis for such co-opera*ion : 
1. Said Horticultural Society to have authority to revise and properly ar¬ 
range the premium list in Horticultural Department: provided, the aggregate 
amount of premiums shall be not less than last year ; also, authority to appoint 
the Superintendent of said department, and the requisise number of judges 
therefor, and to award and deliver all the prizes in said department. 
2. Said premium list to be published in the usual manner, and as a neces¬ 
sary part of the general premium list of the Wisconsin State Agricultural 
Society, and yet as by authority of the State Horticultural Society. 
8. This Society to set apart for the premium expenses of said Horticultu- 
