176 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Honorable Mention to A. N. Brown for the Staymans Winesaps ex- 

 hibited from Delaware. 



Especial Attention is called to the color of the single specimens of 

 Spies exhibited by McDermid Bros. 



Honorable Mention to the Fine Display of the Newaygo County 

 Agricultural Bureau. They show Fine Quality and the manner of 

 displaying them, all varieties being named. 



Honorable Mention to the large and fine exhibit from the Berrien 

 County Horticultural Society, (they should have been labeled.) 



Your committee begs leave to make the following criticisms and 

 recommendations : 



1. All fruit should be labeled regardless of the package it is shown 

 in. 



2. We believe it is desirable that this Society should give annually 

 some trophy to be competed for in such a class as this Society may de- 

 cide on. 



Signed E. O. LADD, 

 L. E. HALL, 

 I. T. PICKFORD. 



The prizes given by the State Society were awarded as follows: 

 Newaygo County Bureau, First Prize, |15.00. 

 Berrien County Horticultural Society, Second Prize, f 10.00. 

 The report of the committee on resolutions offered the following which 

 was unanimously adopted : 



Your committee on Resolutions beg to submit the following: 



We wish to especially express our appreciation to Senator and Mrs. 

 Dunlap, of Savoy Illinois; Mr. Seth J. T. Bush, of Morton, New York, 

 and A. C. Carton, Secretary Michigan Public Domain Commission; 

 Mr. Don Francisco, of Chicago ; who have so kindly and generously 

 come here without remuneration and by their presence and inspiration 

 added so much to the value of our meetings. 



To Prof. Halligan and his class in Horticulture, from M. A. C, who 

 gave us the splendid series of addresses on Horticultural subjects, is 

 due no small part of the success of the meeting, not only for their 

 literary value but for the up-to-the-minute horticultural information 

 which they so ably imparted. 



We wish to thank also, Prof. Sargeant of the Kent Scientific Museum, 

 for his very entertaining illustrated lecture on ''American Birds" and 

 their relation to Horticulture. 



We appreciate also the material assistance of the Q. R. Association 

 of Commerce and their hospitality in so kindly furnishing the rooms for 

 the ladies' meetings, also for the liberal donation to help defray the ex- 

 pense of the Coliseum. 



As The Fruit Belt, a horticultural journal, ])ublished. at Grand 

 Rai)ids is devoted exclusively to the interests of fruit and vegetable 

 growers, we recommend this journal to the horticultural class, be- 

 cause it specializes particularly in those things which pertain to the 

 fruit and vegetable growers. 



Signed M. D. BUSKIRK, 

 J. P. MUNSON. 



