PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Kankakee Valley Horticultural Society 



For the Year 1888. 



Reported by Lennington Small, Secretarij. 



FEBRUARY MEETING. 



The best February meeting ever held by the Kankakee Valley 

 Horticultural Society, convened at the court house last Saturday 

 afternoon; about fifty persons were present. 



President Barnard called the meeting to order and gave a short 

 verbal report of the last meeting of the State Society. The obser- 

 vance of Arbor Day was favorably commented upon by Dr. Small, 

 Cooper, Cunningham, Barnard and others. Mr. Mortimer spoke at 

 some length; he referred to the late destructive storms of the north- 

 west, and believes they could be largely obviated in the future by tree 

 planting. In conclusion he said if one-fifth of this entire country was 

 in timber we could raise more grain than at present, but one of the 

 greatest advantages of this day is the teaching of the rising genera- 

 tion to plant trees and the benefits to be derived therefrom. A res- 

 olution stating it to be the sense of this Society that the Governor 

 appoint the Friday nearest the middle of April as Arbor Day for this 

 locality was adopted. 



Mr. G. G. Barber, essayist, read a short paper on apple orchards. 

 His orchard has fared like other Northern Illinois orchards and is 

 nearly destroyed, but that part located on a northern slope is in bet- 

 ter condition than that on the southern slope. His experience in 



