STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 14f5 



stalls, and other improvements. B. Pullen, of Centralia, President of the Associa-- 

 tion; Ed. A. Blum, Secretary. 



W. A. Goodale has recently made a valualjle improvement to his Patent Spring 

 Fruit Crate, dispensing with nearly halt the lumber, thereby reducing cost and weight. 

 It is also equally convenient for either drawers or boxes. 



Our winter weather commenced unusually early this season, and up to the present 

 writing has made a thorough business of it. On the 19th of October we were fa\'ored 

 with a furious flurry of snow, which caught a large quantity of apples on the trees, 

 not gathered, as well as potatoes still in the furrow, resulting, however, in no serious 

 injury. The present prospects for fruit another season are good. 



J. WARREN FLETCHER. 



A letter from Mr. Fletcher, inviting the Society to hold thet next 

 annual meeting at Centralia, was read. 



Centralia, December 15, 1869. 

 T. McWJiorter, Esq., President State Horticultural Society : 



Dear Sir : — I was requested by prominent citizens of Centralia to extend an invi- 

 tation to your Society to hold their next annual meeting at our place, protfering our 

 best etforts to make the visit of the members pleasant and comfortable. 

 Hoping that the Society will accept the invitation, 



I am, yours respectfully, J. WARREN FLETCHER, 



Secretary Centralia Fruit-Growers' Association. 



Mr. Periam — Vice President at large. I am sorry to say that I have 

 no report to make. My business has kept me so closely confined that 

 I have not had any opportunity of gathering any information, and so 

 far as my own neighborhood is concerned, I think the les"s said of this 

 present distressing season the better. 



The President — I notice that in almost every instance the reports 

 speak of the cherry as having rotted from the wet weather. This is so 

 universal that it seems as though the report of one vice president was 

 repeated by the next. 



Mr. Galusha — I move that the report of Mr. Freeman be made the 

 special order for 10 o'clock. 



Carried. 



ORNITHOLOGY. 



Mr. Periam — 1 had hoped that Mr. Minier would have been here to 



put in a plea for the birds ; also I >r. Hull might have got some informa- 

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