Excerpt from Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the New Jersey State Horticultural Society, 1897: At Its Twenty-Second Annual Session, Held at Trenton, N. J., January 6th and 7th, 1897 The duty of bidding you welcome in the name of the Mercer County Board of Agriculture is a pleasant one. It is made so by recollections of the past, when your visit, coming like an oasis in the winter desert, abounded in fruits and flowers. It is also made pleasant by what we expect from you on this occasion. The branches of industry and knowledge, you are striving to advance, are closely connected with the enjoy ment and health of the great multitude of our own people and those of other lands. Products of your raising are needed alike in the homes of the poor and rich. 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.