icest
of the peonies made upon the floor, so arranged that visitors could walk
amongst them and look down upon them and see them at their best. One
table was occupied with the strawberry exhibit, which, however, was a
small one on account of the lateness of the season, though the
Fruit-Breeding Farm showed some forty or fifty plates of No. 3, the new
June-bearing berry of such large popularity, and a few everbearers. The
number of entries was, I believe, in excess of any previous meeting,
amounting altogether to 521. Most of the old exhibitors at our summer
meeting were present and some few of the newer ones. The effort which
was made this year to secure a completed exhibit at 11:30 proved to be a
success, and by the lunch hour the judges had gotten well along with
their work and the hall was opened to the public to inspect the display.

At 12:00 o'clock or thereabouts the members and their friends gathered
upon the lawn near the station dining hall, where there were plenty of
trees and green grass, and partook of the noon repast, for which purpose
the station provided coffee and also lemonade, the latter a new feature
in our bill of fare.

The regular afternoon meeting was held at 2:00 o'clock in the same hall
in which the exhibit was placed. This was largely attended, some two or
three hundred taking advantage of the opportunity to listen to those who
found place on this extempore program. Our society reporter took some
notes of what transpired at the meeting, but they were only partial
notes, and what here follows in regard to what took place is only in the
nature of extracts.

President Cashman was in the chair as usual and in a few words extended
greeting to the society saying, amongst other things:

"This occasion is always looked forward to with a great deal of
pleasure. We meet those engaged in similar lines of work, we discuss the
problems with which we have to contend, our joys and our sorrows. We
come here to meet our friends--and my experience has been that there are
no truer or more loyal friends than those found amongst the
horticulturists. The true horticulturist is a lover of nature, a lover
of the beautiful and all that goes with it. He looks for nothing except
the best that can be found in human kind. Such are the men and women
that belong to the Horticultural Society."

As representing the University Farm, whose hospitality in a large sense
the society was enjoying, Dean Woods gave us a hearty we