RARY 

 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 



AL 



GARDEN 



OF THE 



MICHIGAN STATE P0M0L0G1CAL SOCIETY. 



Detroit, Mich., December 31, 1876. 



To Hon. E. G. D. Holdcn, Secretary of State : 



Sir, — Section six of an act to provide for the incorporation of societies for 

 the promotion of pomology, horticulture, and the kindred sciences and arts, in 

 the State of Michigan, approved April 15, 1871, provides that " it shall be the 

 duty of the Secretary of said State society to make and transmit to the Secre- 

 tary of State a report of the transactions of said society, including copies of 

 papers read at its meetings, reports of exhibitions held, and of facts collected 

 by correspondence or otherwise, at the end of the month of December of each 

 year, said report to be printed in similar form and number of copies as the re- 

 ports and transactions of the State Board of Agriculture and State Agricult- 

 ural Society, under the direction of the Secretary of State." 



In compliance Avitli the above legal requisition, I respectfully submit for pub- 

 lication the accompanying Keport for 1876, with supplementary papers. 



The report for 1875 included some' papers read and exhibitions held in the 

 year 1876, and, consequently, this report is necessarily brief, and brings the 

 work of the Society down to January 1, 1877. At this point Mr. 0. W. Gar- 

 field, of the Agricultural College, Lansing, succeeds me ; and to him I am 

 indebted for much valuable assistance in the preparation of this report, and for 

 his efforts in behalf of Michigan Horticulture and Pomology, I bespeak for 

 him a kind greeting from their many earnest and intelligent friends through- 

 out the State. 



J. P. THOMPSON. 



