about the hardiness of these trees. This list has stood almost
identically the same list for eight or nine years, pretty nearly the
same, and we are not getting ahead at all. We do not know any more about
the hardiness of these trees we have been putting out than we did
before.

The amendment was carried.

The President: This matter will therefore be referred to the executive
board. The next in order is the annual report of the executive board,
Mr. J. M. Underwood, of Lake City, chairman. Mr. Underwood is sojourning
in the sunny south. He has sent a report, however, to Secretary Latham,
and Mr. Latham has requested me to read it. This was written at St.
Augustine, Florida. (See index.)

The President: Any one wish to make any comments on this report? If not,
we will pass to the report of the secretary, Mr. Latham.

Mr. Latham: Do you wish to have the report read or have it published
later? It will be published anyway.

Mr. Miller: Let it be considered as read and approved and filed for
publication. (See index.)

Motion is seconded and carried.

The President: We will now have the report of George W. Strand,
treasurer. (See index.)

The President: What will you do with the report of the treasurer? You
have heard the reading of it.

Upon motion the report was adopted and filed.

The President: The next order of business would be the paper by
Professor J. C. Whitten but Mr. Whitten is not present, I am sorry to
say, and I am now going to call on Mr. O. M. Heustis as he is present to
tell us about his "Dwarf Apple Trees." (See index.)

The President: We are very much indebted to the doctor for his
interesting talk. Is Professor Mackintosh in the room? I was going to
ask him to read a paper on "Successful Cold Storage Plant for Apples,"
sent in by Mr. Hanson. I am sorry that Mr. Hanson is not able to be
present, he is ill at home.

Professor Mackintosh not being present, paper was read by Mr. Clarence
Wedge.

The President: Mr. Wedge will have a word for us at this time. He has a
suggestion to make.

Mr. Wedge: Ladies and gentlemen, fellow members: Once a year our society
has been in the habit of bestowing the highest honor within its gift
upon some of the members that have honored the society for so many years
with their services and have made themselves in that way so valuable to
the public that we feel that they deserve the highest recognition which
we are able to give them as a society. It becomes my