Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-12
FRUIT AND FLOWER MEN
Horticultural Society Of State Meets in
Shady HsnSoOm Park.
MAYOR MAKES ADDRESS OF WELCOME
President Craig OF the Park Board
Talks of Omaha Resorts and
BOulevards and Several
Papers Are Read.

The summer meeting Of the Nebraska
| State Horticultural society convened
"Wednesday morning at the pavilion in
Hanscom park with about hfty members in
attendance. The officers OF the society,
all OF whom were present, are: j. II. Had
hinson, Benson, president; IL. S. Harrison,
York, first vice president; c. H. Green,
Fremont. second vice president; Peter
Youngers Geneva, treasurer; Luke NJ. Rus
sell, Lincoln, secretary; w. G. Swan of
Tecumseh, A. J. Brown of Geneva and A.
]. Wager of Fremont, directors. Repre-
sentative horticulturists are also present
from all parts of Nebraska and Iowa.
Council Bluffs and Shenandoah being par
ticularly well represented.
The meeting was called to order at 10 a.
m. by President Hadkinson, who introduced
Rev. T. ]. Mackay, who offered the lnvo-
cation Mayor j. c. Dahlman delivered the
address Of welcome. He expressed himself
as feeling honored and gratifed to extend
the Inequalities of Omaha TO so excellent
an organization and continuing said:
This is rather early for me to make a
speech, as my speech making is ordinarily
confined to the evening. However, / want
to extend you a hearty welcome to Omaha
and hope you will enjoy yourselves while
here. The city is yours. We want you to
visit our parks and boulevards, and want
you to visit the city hall. There will be no
necessity for me TO give any instructions
to the chief of police regarding you-your
faces indicate that you are exempt from
any possible police interference"
Craig on Parks and BOuIevards.
James Y. Craig, president Of the Omaha
Park board, delivered a brief address upon
the park and boulevard system of Omaha.
He said:
Our total park system comprises some
600 acres and we have twelve miles of
boulevard already built and twelve more
miles under contemplation and partial con-
struction. 1t will be a pleasure to us to
have you visit all our parks and go over all
our boulevards Do not critlcise us too
harshly, but we believe you can give US
some valuable suggestions for the further
identifying of both of these systems"
President Hadknson here announced that
arrangements had been made to provide the
society ride over the Omaha boulevard
system Thursday morning. The society
would meet for this purpose at 10 o'clock
Thursday morning at Fifteenth and Far
nam streets, where conveyances would be
in readiness.
The response to the address of welcome
was made by ]. j. Hess. president of the
Omaha Florists club. on behalf of the So
ciety. He was followed with an interest
ing paper by r. c. Peters Of Dundee on the
subject of What I Have Done with My
Home Grounds" He told of his successes
and failures with various shrubs and fruits.
Upon the conclusion of his paper Mr..
Peters was piled with numerous questions
relating to his successes. A feature OF the
paper that brought out an interesting dis
cussion was the suggestion of Mr.. Peters
that more attention should be paid to the
Identification Of school grounds. particu-
larly in the rural districts.
The general tendency of the discussion
was to endorse the suggestion relating to
the Identification of school grounds in the
rural districts.
Experiments at Chambers.
J. L. Coppoc OF Chambers read q paper
upon Some Results at the Chambers Ex-
pertinent Station" with special reference
to the spraying OF fruit trees The paper