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Dr. Lobaugh — Plant Osage Orange for posts; there is nothing 

 better. 



G. W. Minier — You are all most cordially invited to attend the 

 meeting of the American Forestry Congress to be held in Springfield, 

 in September. 



Adjourned to 8 p. m. 



WEDNESDAY EVENING. 



Song — '' John on the Island." 



While visiting in St. Augustine, a year or two ago, Mr. Brown at- 

 tended an old church, (supposed to be the oldest in the United States) 

 and heard this wild, weird song, sung by the colored people, and was so 

 impressed with its wild, sweet, strains, that he was able to reproduce 

 it from memory, after returning home. The Society feels under 

 special obligations to Mr. Brown, and the Glee Club for the pleasure 

 they afforded by its rendition. — Secketary. 



SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF SMALL ERUIT GR(3WING 



IN ILLINOIS. 



BY R. W. HUNT, GALESBURG. 



Mr. President,^ Ladies and Gentlemen of the 



Central Illinois Horticultural Society. 



Horticulture, in the broad acceptation of the term, in the present 

 liberal age, seems to embrace every employment that tickles Mother 

 Earth with plow or cultivator, hoe or digging-fork, seed-drill or 

 planter; the culture of large and small fru^s, vegetables, trees, 

 shrubs and flowers, the making and care of lawns, and landscape 

 gardening in all its details. 



In proof of this, I have only to refer you to the programme of 

 this present meeting of your Society. It would seem, therefore, that 

 we have pabulum for much thought, work for many hands; expe- 

 riences enough, should we relate them, to fill a very large book, en- 

 quiries enough as to the whys and wherefores, to duplicate the same, 

 and don't knows enough to make a very formidable appendix. And 

 I doubt not the knowledge of these facts has induced you to call 

 upon so many for their views, assigning to each a particular subject. 



