The exhibition was installed in the new gymnasium at University Farm, a room sufficiently large so that it not only accommodated the exhibition with wide aisle space, but also found plenty of room for the placing of chairs for the afternoon meeting.  Tables were arranged around three sides of the hall, which were used for the displays of perennials and roses.  The peonies were shown on several tables in the north center of the hall and besides these there were exhibits of some of the choicest 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.”