PROCEEDINGS OF THE SUMMER MEETING. 



HELD AT SOUTH HAVEN, AUGUST 21 AND 22, 1894. 



VISIT to South Haven is always a pleasure to the fruitgrower, the 

 more so if he goes in the growing or fruiting season. Those who 

 went there upon attendance at the summer meeting of the Michigan State 

 Horticultural society found no exception to the rule, if, indeed, they did not 

 find the pleasantness of the place and the hospitality of the people a little 

 more tangible and hearty than usual. There were far more visitors than 

 could reasonably have been expected under the circumstances, enough to 

 make, with the local attendance, large audiences at each of the sessions. 

 It had been planned to have the meeting a little in advance of the middle 

 peach harvest, but the dry, warm season, hastening the ripening, caused 

 the interference which it was hoped to avoid. The visiting attendants 

 mostly arrived the morning of the 22d, though a few were on hand sooner, 

 and were received at the station by a committee with carriages, who took 

 them at once to the experiment station. The company included Gov. 

 EiCH, Pomologist Heiges of the national department of agriculture, Profs. 

 Taft and Davis of the Agricultural college, and a number of other gentle- 

 men from different points in the state. 



At the station, which is under the careful superintendence of Mr. T. T. 

 Lyon, everything was found to be in perfect order, the trees and plants 

 showing as good a state of cultivation as could be wished, while growth 

 and fruitage were as good as could be expected under the conditions of 

 the season. A trip about the grounds was made by the large party, who 

 found very'Jittle to criticise and very much to commend. The visit was 

 made chiefly to [the pear, plum, and grape plats, as the peaches, like all 

 others so close to the lake this season, were not in bearing. But the trees 



