It has often been remarked that the managers of local horticultural meetings, make great mistakes in getting some three-story, or other room, in which refined and cultured people will not assemble. The very best rooms in a town should be engaged, and made attractive to the best people, if horticulture is to have the best patronage essential to its success. A strong point was made of this by Mr. L. B. Pierce, of Dayton, before the American Pomological Society, who favored meeting on the private grounds of some patron of horticulture.