40 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



This bit of humor gave relief from the prevailing stress of indignation 

 but it cost Mr. Comings many a good-natured jibe during the rest of the 

 meeting. 



Replying to a question as to how the Michigan exhibit at the Centennial 

 was provided, said 



Mr. Lyon: When the legislative appropriation for the Centennial was 

 made, horticulture received nothing whatever. But some person or 

 persons on the .board appointed by Gov. Bagley supplied from private 

 sources funds for the exhibit of our horticulture, which was so highly 

 successful that the New. York exhibit was not unpacked, its custodians 

 refusing to permit the contrast. 



GOOD WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Prof. CooK: The department of agriculture has never done so much as 

 it is doing now in the way of practical, valuable work, and this and all 

 other societies can not do better than to associate very closely with it. 

 This society is wise in taking such early action. 



SHOULD PREPARE AT ONCE FOR THE WORLD'S FAIR. 



Mr. R. Morrill of Benton Harbor: It would be well to take some 

 action to secure state aid for the horticultural exhibit. 



Mr. J. N. Stearns of Kalamazoo: I have for years contended that 

 Michigan is best of all the states for horticulture, and now feel that we 

 should make this fact and the advantages of an early and full exhibit 

 well known to the legislature. Our horticulture should be very fully 

 represented. 



Mr. Morrill: I did not mean that we should act only through the 

 committee to be here appointed, but local influence should be brought to 

 bear upon the members before they go. Unless we all take hold of this 

 work, too ('all parts of the state), people who go to the Fair will receive 

 an impression that Oceana county is all there is of the Michigan fruit 

 region, for Mr. Sessions will see that no effort is lacking to that end — just 

 as at Detroit he covered all the tables and swept away all the plum and 

 peach premiums and secured to Oceana county all the horticultural 

 advertising of the past two years. 



Mr. GtARField: It must be largely an exhibit of methods. Not only, 

 for instance, must Kalamazoo celery be shown, but methods by which it is 

 grown; not only must there be a show of red apples, but the ways and 

 means of their production. 



The chair announced Messrs. S. H. Comings, A. J. Cook, and W. A. 

 Taylor a committee on resolutions, and a recess was taken till evening. 



Tuesday Evening's Session. 



The vice-president, Mr. Garfield, occupied the chair, President Lyon 

 having gone to Indianapolis to attend a meeting of the Indiana State 

 society, in connection with his agricultural department work. Mr. 



