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but personally I had no right whatever to receive such kindness as had been 

 shown me. 



There is much more that to me seems of interest that I might add to this 

 already too long report, but will close with again thanking you for your for- 

 bearance and the unmerited honor of representing von. 



S. B. Mann. 



Report accepted and ordered placed in the records of this meeting. 

 Mr. Chas. R. Coryell followed with the 



REPORT OF DELEGATE TO INDIANA SOCIETY. 



Having through your partiality been selected as your representative .o the 

 19th annual meeting of the Indiana Horticultural Society, held in Dublin, 

 Wayne county, Ind., on the 10th, 17th, and ISth of December last, I here- 

 with submit my report, with some account of the doings of that Society. 



The meeting was held in Odd Fellows' Hall, which was tastefully decorated 

 with mottoes and pictures, and the rostrum, tables, and shelves were filled with 

 flowers, plants, fruits, grains, vegetables, and curiosities. 



Mr. Coffin, of Hendricks county, had a revolving hexagonal rack containing 

 72 shelves, on which he exhibited 450 apples of 110 varieties that he had 

 grown himself. 



There were on exhibition 45G plates of apples that were a credit to the State 

 and to the Society. There was also a good show of other fruits, grains, vege- 

 tables, and canned fruits; one can of cherries had been put up 18 years, and 

 appeared all right. Specimen of the wood of the Oatalpa -ypeciosa that had 

 laid on the ground 68 years and was perfectly sound ; plants of the catalpa, etc. 



At 2 o'clock P. M. the President, Sylvester Johnson, gave his annual ad- 

 dress. He congratulated the Society on the progress they had made the past 

 year. The cultivation of fruits was on the increase throughout the State; 

 there was an increase in the number of varieties, in size, in productiveness, 

 and in flavor. They had secured the passage of an act by the last legislature 

 making it unlawful to kill any insectivorous bird, or to destroy or disturb their 

 eggs, or to net or trap quails at any time, or to kill them from the 1st of Jan- 

 nary to first of November. The temperature had been 24° below zero in Cen- 

 tral Indiana the past winter and still they had peaches. The cold weather had 

 shown them that none of the named varieties of blackberries were hardy except 

 the Snyder, with Taylor's Prolific close to it. With black-cap raspberries, the 

 Gregg only came through unharmed ; of the red varieties the Thwack was the 

 least harmed. The President gave a very lengthy report as delegate to the 

 American Pomological Society, which met in biennial session in Rochester, N. 

 Y., in September last. 



The Secretary, W. H. Ragan, gave his annual report. The Society receives 

 $300 per annum from the State and one dollar from each member except hon- 

 orary members. They have about 100 members, and have on hand $900. He 

 recommends the revision of the Star Fruit list, and that it be published in the 

 next annual report. 



Mr. P. D. Hammond, of Indianapolis, read a -''paper," being a criticism of 

 Indiana on fruit growing. In the markets at the present time he finds the 

 apples are grown in Michigan and New York, the pears in California, but the 

 fruit he held in his hand succeeded well in Indiana; it is called the pomme cle 

 terre. 



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