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On motion the resolutions were adopted. 



Mr, 0. R. L. Grozicr, a member of the committee, presented the following, 

 which was adopted : 



Mr. President: As my associates on your committee on resolutions are 

 gentlemen from abroad, — Mr. Hilboni from Ontario, and Mr. Hoag from New 

 York, — I beg leave to submit the following in addition to our joint report: 



An encouraging feature of our meeting now closing is the presence of Mr. 

 Dempsey as delegate from the Horticultural Society of Ontario, and others 

 from that province, and several gentlemen from New York, and from our 

 own State, not heretofore at our meetings. These gentlemen have added very 

 much to the interest and usefulness of the meeting. We say, because we most 

 thoroughly mean it, come again! your visit has done us much good. May 

 you and those who are so fortunate as to have you for neighbois, be abund- 

 antly blessed with the richest gifts of horticulture. We trust you and we are 

 all wiser and better, and so will be more useful from having enjoyed the prep- 

 aration for labors at and drill in this meeting. We thank those friends and 

 co-laborers for their very agreeable company and intelligent aid during our 

 meeting. 



0. K. L. Crozier. 



The announcement was made by the secretary that the executive board 

 under class eight of the scheme of premiums, had awarded the diploma of the 

 society to the Benzie county society ; and further, that the Ionia county society 

 had received a certificate of merit for valuable work accomplished in 1882. 



The secretary further announced the next convention of the society to occur 

 in February at Marshall. 



Meeting closed with the doxology, led by Prof. Graves, 



