Excerpt from Biennial Report of the Oregon State Board of Horticulture, 1909 Gaston, oregon, January 1, 1909. To the Honorable, the Legislative Assembly of Oregon: Gentlemen: In conformity with the statute which directs the. Board of Horticulture to report biennially to you, 1 herewith submit my report of the work of the Board for the years 1907 and 1908. You are, of course, familiar in a general way with the object of the Board and with the work that has been accomplished. And 1 need refer to that only briefly, but I hope in a way that will show its importance As originally organized, the district commissioners, five in number were the active working force, the president being merely a figure head who presided at meetings. Later the president was made an active working member and in 1905 the present organization was perfected; the work of the Board being supplemented by a. Force of county inspectors. 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.