TRANSACTIONS 



ILLINOIS STATE HeBTieULTUBAL m\m 



FOR 1879, 

 Being the Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting, 



HELD AT 



Normal, McLean Co., December 9, 10 and i i; 



TOGBTHBR WITH THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS; 



ALSO, OF THK 



Warsaw, Galesburg and Kankakee Horticultural Societies, 



FOR THE YEAR 1879. 



Etnbracing Reports, Essays ajid Discussions in all Departments qf Tree and Fruit Culture and 



Floriculture , with Lists of Fruits, Trees and Plants adapted to the several Fruit 



Districts of the State : also Papers, by Special Scientists, upon those 



Sciences which are related to Horticulture. 



New Series— Vol. XIII. 



EDITED BY THE SECRETARY, 



O. B. GALUSHA, MORRIS, ILL. 



CHICAGO: 



PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY. 



C. E. Southard, Printer, 175 Monroe St. 



1880. 



