SUMMER MEETING, 1SS0. 85 



sun north, devouring myriads of insects as they pass and repass. There are 

 but few of our native birds that are not our friends. We should take every 

 means to protect and increase the number of our birds, that they may hold 

 the insects in check. 



Prof. Riley not being present, Dr. Warder, of Ohio, entertained the Society 

 with some very appropriate remarks on Elementary Entomology. He also 

 gave a talk on the 



OATALPA SPECIOSA. 



The Doctor says he has the Catalpa on the brain. This is the coming tree 

 and will supply all our wants. It grows readily from the seed, grows rapidly, 

 tall and straight. It does not decay, it will lay on the ground 100 years and 

 be sound. He had pieces that had been on the ground G8 years and were 

 sound. It makes good posts, telegraph poles, cross ties, timbers, shingles, 

 cabinet work, and live fence posts. 



Friday morning was devoted to hearing reports, redisricting the state, 

 making six districts, appointing delegates to attend the Horticultural meet- 

 ings of adjoining states, deciding on a place for holding the next meeting, 

 which was Crawfordsville, Ind. ; hearing reports from committees on fruit on 

 exhibition, unfinished business, and final resolutions. 



This was the most largely attended of any meeting the society ever held. 

 The hall, with a seating capacity of 400, was filled in the evening, and from 

 one-half to two-thirds in the day sessions with earnest, practical, working 

 members, and attentive interested spectators, of whom one-third to one-half 

 were ladies. 



Your delegate, as representative of your society, was truly honored with all 

 the attention and courtesies that could have been desired. They publicly in- 

 troduced and warmly welcomed him to their meeting, and elected him an 

 honorary member, with all the privileges of membership, as a compliment to 

 your society. The members of the Indiana society have placed the Michigan 

 society under obligations for kind attention and hospitality to your representa- 

 tive, and personally I am their debtor. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



Eeport accepted and ordered printed in full with the records of this meeting. 



An allusion to Keifer's Hybrid pear in the paper caused a number to inquire 

 of President Lyon his opinion of that variety. Mr. Lyon stated that he did 

 not think very favorably of it, as its flavor was ordinary only. 



Prof. J. (J. Holmes gave a simple and effectual recipe for killing worms 

 on cabbages. It consists of wheat bran spread over the plants ; and whale oil 

 soap was also recommended. 



The following statement and resolution were adopted unanimously as the 

 sense of the meeting : 



From the valuable reports of our delegates to Ohio and Indiana, giving an 

 epitome of the transactions of these sister societies, at their annual meetings, 

 we are led to see the good to accrue from the practice of sending delegates to 

 the meetings of societies in adjoining States ; therefore, 



Resolved, That we endorse the system of sending delegates to the annual 

 conventions of Horticultural Societies in adjoining States, as far as consistent 

 with the condition of the finances of our Society. 



