SOCIETY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. 295 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON FINAL RESOLUTIONS. 



Your Committee on Final Resolutions ask leave to report the 

 following: 



First. Our thanks are tendered to the citizens of Normal and 

 vicinity for the hospitality in entertaining the members of our 

 Society. 



Second. We give thanks to the press of Bloomington for their 

 judicious and timely reports of our proceedings. 



Third. We congratulate this Society on its good fortune in 

 having so many members who are willing to make personal sacri- 

 fice to attend the meetings and encourage each other in their gen- 

 erous and unselfish labor. 



Fourth. We hope that this meeting and its proceedings will 

 foster orchard planting, floriculture, and gardening, and last, 

 but not least, the planting of fruit and ornamental trees on all 

 our roadsides. 



Fifth. To the officers of the Society for the generous and im- 

 partial rulings, and labor, in promoting the interests of the Agri- 

 culturist and Horticulturist of Illinois. 



D. H. Gray, 



G. W. MlNIER, 



Committee. 



