STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 143 



THIED DAY— MOENING SESSION. 



The Society met at 9 o'clock, pursuant to adjournment. President 

 McWhorter in the Chair. 



The President — The first thing in order is the list of Ornamental 

 Shrubs, etc. It is an interesting subject, but there is a question 

 whether we have time and opportunity here to attend to it, with the 

 vast amount of matter pressing on our attention. 



Mr. Earle — I was about to suggest that the last item this morning 

 is a subject of very great and universal importance and interest. We 

 have gentlemen here from several of the older States, who are very 

 competent to assist us in the discussion. The}' are not all in the room 

 just now, and I wish the reports of Committees could occupy us half 

 an hour or so. 



Mr. Brown — I move that the Ornamental Shrubs, etc., be passed. 



Carried. 



REPORTS OF VICE PRESIDENTS. 



District No. 2. — Mr. Woodard — Mr. Crow is not here and could not 

 get here in consequence of business. 



District No. S. — A letter from Mr. Hansen was rearl. 



The crop of apples generally was very poor. The wet weather was, in my opinion, 

 the cause. This season has been the wettest In twenty years. The following varieties 

 of apples were good: Keswick Codling, Red A^trachan, Maiden Blush, and all of the 

 Russett family. The rest were poor. Small fruits were generally good, with the 

 exception of grapes. The early Richmond cherry produced abundantly, but was 

 injured by wet weather, by being very watery, and rotting somewhat on the trees. 

 The Black Caps yielded abundantly. They are beginning to be quite extensively 

 cultivated. 



The crop of Pears was good. Every tree large enough bore abundantly. They are 

 also being generally planted . 



Tree peddlers continue to be a pest. They are too generally succeeding in gulling 

 those inexperienced in their system of deception and fraud. This imposition calls for 

 a loud condemnation. 



WM. H. HAUSEN. 



