Transactions of the Illinois State Horticultural Society, Vol. 13

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Excerpt from Transactions of the Illinois State Horticultural Society, Vol. 13: For 1879, Being the Proceeding of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting, Held at Normal, McLean Co, , December 9. 10 and 11, Together With the Proceedings of the Horticultural Society of Northern Illinois, Also, of the Warsaw Galseburg and Kankakee Horticultura I can well remember when only rank grass and prairie ¿owers covered the surface now occupied by our pleasant village. The change in its appearance we recognize as due largely to the work of some of your members, and to the in¿uence of your Society. For this reason, also, we welcome you to our town and to our homes. In the name of the State Board of Education I welcome you to this building. We desire you should feel perfectly at home here, that you should use its halls for your purposes, that you should freely visit its recitation rooms and its laboratories at any and all times when you may choose. We feel that your work and ours are not very far apart. We are striving to elevate the people of this great commonwealth, intellectually and morally, you are striving to benefit them by increasing their physical comfort and by ministering to their love of the beautiful. In all my acquaintance with the affairs of this institution I have never known a member of this Society who was an enemy of the Normal University. There may have been such a case, but, if so, it has not come to my knowledge. I desire to add my personal welcome. I remember attending one of the meetings of your Society when I first came into this community. If I mistake not, it was twenty-one years ago this month, the meeting was held in the old College Hall, in Bloomington. I was then much pleased with your work, and interested in it, and some of the members I there met for the first time I was afterward privileged to call my friends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.