The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-02-01
Horticultural Meeting.

| THE report OF the horticultural meeting for
January.l
Theduty of the reporter is ostensibly
to.write up report of the proceedings
Of the emeeting for publication but just
now little digres sion will be permissible
especially so because we have with this
meeting passed from an old year to a
new year, the eighteenth of the exist
ence of of our Horticultural Society.
A brother in a secret society to which
the writer belongs said, at is really
IA solemn thing to witness the death of
century and the birth of its successor.
What possibilities unfolds. One can
not avoid the reflection that great
responsibility rests with those who
have the distinction of being sponsors
to the new century"
Favored as we have been ourself
with an earthly existence of over half
of the nineteenth century :and been a
witness to the great development in
the arts and sciences and great adj
vance in civilization we are constrain-
ed to eXclaim, wonderful. wonder
full" and if we could peer through the
dim vista of the future to the end Of
the century now unfolding about us
and apprehend the results which the
wisdom and efforts Of the human
family have attained during the
twentieth century the great progress of
which we now so proudly boast would
doubtless be almost insignificant.
While it may not be amiss to boast of
the past yet il ever there was a time
when we were iustihable in serious
reelection and making new resolutions
it is now. But along this line | desist
and will refer to the organization of
our society. OF the charter members
with which we organized seventeen
years ago some of US still remain,
but many of our best working and
most faithful members are seen no
more among us.
Some have removed to distant parts
of the country, some have grown
weary and fallen out by the way side
and some have gone to join the innum-
cradle throng in the great beyond.
But we cherish the memory of such
faithful ones as Brothers A. l.. Dib-
BILE, &c. Chase, II. L. Reagan, lDr.l w.
ID. Scott, Squire Young, Erastus
Richardson and Miss Ida McHugh
and others whom we cannot just now
recall. The last name on the roll is
number 252 and it is surprising that
so few of our fruit growers ndfarmers
take time to attend the monthly meet
ings of the society. When we con-
template the benefit that has accrued
to Allen county through the instru-
mentality of our society and the
notriety we have given the county at
home and abroad and the many valu-
able and useful hints and suggestions
made and distributed without money
and without price, it is amazing that
anyone owning and cultivating even
so much as Il single acre of land would
not realize the Importance of attend
ing these meetings once per month to
renew and assist in difIusing informa-
ton which perhaps can be nowhere
else so readily obtained The wonder
is that the building the size of the G.
A. II. Hall would contain all the peo-
pie that should attend the meetings.
Now we will give brief report of the
last meeting. A smaller number than
usual were present owing probably to
the fact that old mother earth and the
trees. and every thing exposed was
covered with mantle eff ice.
The program for January was gone
through with, the principal topics
being the grape, its cultivation and
pruning, the best varieties, enc. The
varieties recommended were the Con
cord, EarlysOlive, Campbell's Early,
Brighton, Early Victor, Moore's Dia,
mond andI Agawam as shown by q
paper read by the secretary, B. f