58 TEANSACTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS 



Referring to the Secretary's Report, we heartily approve the 

 effort to secure an earlier publication of our volume of transactions. 

 We commend the efforts of the Board in striving to secure a larger 

 appropriation for the more successful prosecution of our work, and 

 urge them to continue the effort. We approve the plan of the Sec- 

 retary to divide the State into districts, with an ad-interim com- 

 mittee in each district; giving the committee power to appoint 

 sub-committees. We think this plan would reach the people and 

 bring our work to their notice better than any plan we have tried. 

 We would therefore recommend that the matter be referred to the 

 Executive Board, that they may perfect the plan and adopt it in 

 place of our present ad-interim work. 



If we had a larger appropriation of money it would be a good 

 way to advance the horticultural interests of the State to hold a 

 summer meeting, but in our present financial condition we doubt 

 the advisability of incurring this additional expense, especially while 

 the Northern, Central and Southern societies hold annual meetings, 

 and we would not think it advisable to hold a State meeting in con- 

 nection with one of the local societies. 



We approve the effort of the Secretary to bring about a hearty 

 and cordial cooperation between the State Boards of Agriculture 

 and Horticulture, and commend him for sending horticulturists to 

 participate in the Farmers' Institutes, being held in the various Con- 

 gressional Districts of the State. 



H. M. DUNLAP, 

 A. G. HUMPHKET, 



C. N. Denxis, 



Committee. 



On motion the report was adopted. 



The other committees reported as follows: 



REPORT OF AWARDING COMMITTEE — CLASS II. 



Best Plate Seedling. Good Enough to he Eecommended — There were 

 four entries. First premium was awarded to C. B. Rockwell, Ham- 

 ilton. A. H. Gaston entered the Hennepin Apple, and W. R. Crain 

 a variety known as Cache. These varieties were regarded by your 

 committee as new varieties, and not as seedlings, inasmuch as they 

 had been passed upon as seedlings, at previous meetings of this 

 Society. No second or third premiums were awarded for the above 

 reasons. 



Best Plate New Variety, Good Enough to be Eecommended — First 

 premium, W. R. Crain, variety, Cache; second premium, A. C. Ham- 

 mond, variety, Wythe; third premium, A. C. Hammond, variety, 

 McClellan. 



