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something will be done to induce Mrs. Walsh to keep this collection 

 until the Legislature meetS; and then I have no doubt that a liberal 

 sum will be appropriated. Here are the labors of twelve years ; this. 

 State can afford to give a sum of money for this collection; it can be- 

 placed in the hand of the State Entomologist, and a duplicate can b^ 

 furnished for use at Springfield. 



The question being on referring the resolution to the Executive 

 Committee, it was so referred. 



Mr. Baldwin mo.ved an adjournment until 7 o'clock P. M., which 

 was agreed to, and the meeting stood adjourned. 



THIED DAY— EVENING SESSION. 



The Society met at 7 o'clock, pursuant to adjournment. President 

 McWhorter in the chair. 



Mr. Edwards, of the Ad Interim Committee, submitted the follow- 

 ing report : 



La Moille, Bureau County, Ills., Dec. lOth, 1869. 



To W. C. Flagg, Secretary Illinois State Eorticultural Society — Sir : As oue of the 

 Committee Ad Interim of your Society, with J. "W. Cochran, chairman of the com- 

 mittee, and Dr. E. S. Hull, State Horticulturist, I was at the Stephenson County 

 Agricultural Society's Fair, in Freeport, IGth of September last. We were cordially 

 received and cared for by the reception conmiittee and officers of the society. 



A lignarium of one hundred and nineteen varieties of woods indigenous to Stephen- 

 son county is in the highest degree creditable to the interest in this important subject, 

 and perseverance manifested in its collection and skillful aiTangement by Mr. H. H. 

 McAfee, of Freeport; especially, when it is remembered that only some eighty-two 

 varieties have heretofore been considered as native to the State by our highest author- 

 ities. Ordway and Parker exhibited eight varieties of evergreens and larch; L. H. 

 Scofield the same — all evincing good management. The display of apples, and pears, 

 and grapes was good. Apples are generally much affected by scab. C. H. Kosenstiel 

 has a hedge of Norway spruce two and a half feet apart, ten feet high. He is fully 

 confident it wiU make an efficient fence against all stock except hogs. Dr. Hull 

 lectured in the evening at the court-house, followed by discussion. 



Morning of 17th September we were met at Galena by Mayor Brand, J. G. Soulard^ 

 President of local^Horticultural Society, and others of reqeption committee, escorted 

 to the De Soto House; thence, after breakfast, carriages were provided, and the 



