The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-12-08
HORTICULTURE AL.
The State Meeting i'm Fall Bast
A Fine Display of Fruits.
The Interesting Exercises OF
Last Night and To-Day.

state OF MISSOURI Is In session in tn
city. it convened Lost light unde
tie very h 'ppiest auspices. The at
tendance is large, the display Of t.,
very finest. AMI the interest has neyei
before bean equalled at slmiLl
meeting. Previous to the meeting i
was predicted thai it would be sue
cess. 1t is more than that, and tn.
friends Of horticulture are in high
feather.
In the circuit court roam loag tabl-.
are laden with III most superb VAR
Ell OF fruit ever grown in any por-
ton of Uncle sam, dOminios
The business meetings are held in
the crimina! court room, and are
largely attended, not Only By ho.li-
cui;urists. but by their frien1s sener-
ally.
Last night was the first meeting,
and the spacious room was comforts
bly, filed with those anxious to wit
MISS tie exercises.
President j. c. Evans. of Cav
county, was Ia the chair. He makes
an excellent presiding Off :er, and is
withal one of the finest gentlemen in
the state, ard for many years has
been one Of the recogaiz d leaders in
the horticultural work.
Secretary l.. A Go oman, of
Westporr, who came in as an advance
guard, and has been ex-
ceeding,y busy, is another
gentlemen OF whom the organization
may well be proud. AMI his duties
are by no m cans light. al hough he
takes the greatest pleasure In per,
forming them.
The exercises open with a mag
nifcent selec ion from Prof. Gregs's
superb orcl estra, which vas the very
SOU of music. 1t was fine and well |
received by the audience.
A very earnest and appropriate
prayer by that eloquent divine. Rev.
A, I'll. Sephens. fol!owed-and then
came a fine veal selection by
Miss Helen Ga;lie, assisted
by number of magnificent
voices. Tn: rendition drew hearty
applause from the audience.
Ac ing Mayor Carroll in a short,
neat and appropriate adde's rendered
tie visitor the freedo of the CITY.
Ii was done in so hearty and ho.pta
bic manner As to call tor,h hearty
response from the visitors, and 10
which President j. e. Evans re-
spouGed most handsomely.
The address of the evening - The
German Theory of ID sense as Applied
10 Vegetation"-was delivered BY DR..
j. NJ. Allen, of Liberty, Mo-, and was
in every respect an abe paper and {
was ii tened to with the closest at
ten:iOn. Some new ide were adj. !
vanced by the docio-, and it was easy
to be seen that his address ha 4 made l
a very m'rked impression on his :
He is sp'endi reasoner j
and though not strictly horiicul-
turist, handled that subject like 5
a veteran whenever it was
referred TO in connection with his /
suhjec:. d
A very animated and pleasing di.. Y
cussion Of the subject mater followed,
being particip ,ted in by Plof. DafIy, e
Of St. Louis, Judges Miller Of lows, i
MIR. Meyers ana Others. =
Prof. J. w. Clark of Columbia, was
10 have rsa'i 4 pap r. bat at the last I
having tailed II arrive, the v
iuiy was Gel gated to Secret ~ [
Goodman. a
This was !o;lpwel by tie appoint-
neat Of the following committees by o
Prtsii ent Evans: L
Ga frui's-Messrs. E,penlaub, of h
Kansas, Perrine. Of Illinois and 10. e
,ard, of Missouri :,
On flowers Mr. S. Miller, Mrs
George F. Dugan and Mrs. A. Mel te
on. 4"
On finance -Messrs. A. Nelson, W. CT
!. Gano and n. F Murray. m
On obi.uary-Messrs. r f Baily,
}. A. Turner and Major Frank Ho!- W
niger, of Kansas. IS
On final resolutions-Messrs. E. F.
1ollister, Conrad Hartzel and K. III. &C
Wheeler. II
At 9 o'clock this morning the re
ociety reassembled and was opened hi
nth prayer by Rev. d. r. Black. st
"How to grow the strawberry" was NJ
be subject of a very fine essay by j. m
|. Menifee of Oregon, Mo-, and which ez
rought forward considerable dis. tr
ussi0n. in
At this junc.ure very important de
was appointed-one 10 con- ar
der the advisatility of adopting
inform system of pack W,