STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 1 1 '.1 



was only a little matter of ten degrees of frost ; it only lasted a very few 

 hours, but it was sufficient to rob the fruit growers of Egypt of a million 

 or two of dollars. And such accidents are liable to happen any year I 



Need this report be prolonged ? The history of a year's struggle to 

 rei)air the damages, and make the year's accounts balance, scarcely need 

 be written. Any Mark I'apley who has a genius for meeting disaster, and 

 who fails to find sufficient difficulties to kee]) him joll\-, should hasten to 

 engage in fruit growing in Egypt. 



REQUEST B\ S'lATl': ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Prok. Thomas — Mr. President : I shall be obliged to leave the hall 

 soon, and before I go I wish to say, I shall be glad to have the co-opera- 

 tion of the members of this Society, and to receive from them any speci- 

 mens of insects that they are pleased to send me. My address is at Car- 

 bondale, Illinois. If you feel it is necessary to place any work upon me, 

 I am at your service. I will be glad to serve the horticulturists of Illinois 

 in any way I am able. If you command, I will obey, for I am your 

 servant. 



J. S. Johnson — I wish, as a member of the Warsaw Horticultural 

 Society, to extend to Mr. Thomas an invitation to attend our meeting, 

 some time during the summer. 



Prof. Thomas — I will be glad to accept the invitation, and I will 

 say this also : that in the summer, I travel at my own expense ; but in 

 the winter, if my services are needed, it is essential to provide for the 

 necessary traveling expenses. 



WANTED— .\ NEW APPLE. 



J. S. Johnson — I wish to offer a resolution, with reference to the 

 coming apple — an apple that we can call our apple — an apple that will be 

 to us what the Baldwin is to the East. 



I submit tlic following for adcjptiou li\ this meeting: 



Whereas, We ha\ c no apple in this State which meets all our require- 

 ments, in tree and fruit, of a first-class winter ajjple, and believing that we 

 may in time produce an apple which will compete in all our markets with 

 the Baldwin or Northern Spy ; therefore. 



Resolved, That a committee be appointed at this time to report to 

 this meeting a plan whereby we mnv ])roduce and perfect an a])|)lc which 

 will meet our re(]uirenients. 



The resolution was adopted, and the following gentlemen appointed 

 upon the committee: Dr. J. .\. Warder, D. B. Wier, J. W. Cochran, 

 Jonathan Huggins, and J. S. Johnson. 



