PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



WARSAW HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



FOR THE YEAR 1887. 



REPORTED FOR PUBLICATION BY J. T. JOHNSON, SECRETARY. 



Stated Meetings. Third Wednesday in Each Month. 



JANUARY MEETING. 



Warsaw, III., Jan. 19, 1887. 



Society convened in Horticultural Hall, at 1 o'clock, p. m., and 

 was called to order by President C. N. Dennis, who entertained the 

 Society with an interesting Annual Address replete with valuable 

 suggestions drawn from another year in our history and experience. 



DISCUSSIO]!^. 



T. F. Leeper — Again we report the peach buds killed, and our 

 markets will have to be supplied from regions favored by a climate 

 more mild than that of Central Illinois. 



J. M. Berry — Our apple treqs — those remaining healthy — are, 

 as yet, favorable to a crop. The weather has been very severe, yet 

 our fruit buds remain uninjured. 



J. T. Johnson — It is not the degree of cold that destroys the 

 fruit buds in the apple orchard. Indeed, they are seldom injured by 

 the cold at all. Our spring weather is much more precarious for 

 them, and the real injury ofttimes comes after blooming. 



The election of officers for 1887 was taken up, with the follow- 

 ing result: 



