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A (lisnission cusueil iii)on the manner of selecting this ( oinmitlcc. 

 Motions were made for the President to appoint, which he dec lined ch) 

 ing ; and for a nominating cumniitlee to present names, \vhi( h was lost. 

 A motion to refer the appointment to the E.xecutive Board prt'vai7ed, and 

 the Society then adjourned. 



WEDNESDAY MORNING. 



Prksidknt ScoKiKM) called the meeting to order at the regular hour ; 

 and Professor J. B. Turner led in prayer at the opening exercise. 



REl'CJKT ON GENERAL IIORTICUITURE— THIRD DISTRICT. 



The President called for the rei)ort of Prof. Turner, of committee 

 for Third District, who rejjorteil the following: 



The Committee on (leneral Hoticulture is expected to rejjort on the 

 Status, Modes of Culture, and Results of Horticulture in their several 

 districts ; the weather, species, varieties, soils, adaptations, in.sects, reme- 

 dies, etc. So far forth as the Third District is concerned, I can speak 

 i)0sitivelv onlv of mv own near vicinity ; and thereabouts I can assure 

 you that the general " 6'/'a/«j' of Horticulture " is very stationary, indeed. 

 During the past year we have made no great improvements in horticul- 

 ture, outside of the introduction of one very remarkable, and entirely 

 successful, great labor-saving machine ; it was universally adopted, with- 

 out advertisement, hand-bills, or wood cuts ; though there was some little 

 l)uffing and blowing done, by its most intimate frientls, at various times 

 during its incipient inauguration and trial. M first, last fall, all our peo- 

 j)le called it, not exactly a humbug, but they regarded it as a very dry 

 and useless concern. Along in winter they began to look at it more 

 coolly ; toward spring, somewhat more cheerfully and hopefully ; but in 

 May they gave it the cold shoulder again, decided!)' ; while in June and 

 July, when they come to see it fully and fairly at work, and clearly show- 

 ing what it could do, when it half tried, they could not look at it with- 

 out tears in their eyes ; tears in their faces; tears on their heads, hats, 

 bonnets and cloaks ; tears on all the trees, and fences, and grasses ; and 

 great and perpetual thunder showers of tears, falling thick and fast all 

 around. Of course this wonderful labor-saving machine was the weather: 

 it, in fact, saved us, so far as fruit is concerned, almost our whole season's 

 work ; it thinned, and cultivated, and j^icked, antl barreled, and housed, 

 and peeled, and dried, and cored, and stoned, and stewed, and baked, 

 and canned, and ate, and digested, almost our entire fruit crop for us ; 

 and if any of you know of a machine that can do more things than that, 

 1 would like to see it. .\iiil tlicii it works so ea.sy ; we did not even have 

 to grea.se it all the sunnuer long. I don't know who has these machines 



