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TRANSACTIONS. 



Although gurdeuius' w;is the first occupatiou iu which man engaged and luis claimed the attention 

 oi" cultivated men iu every age of the world, j-et it must be admitted , tliat as yet we know verj- little 

 of the principles of vegetable growth, or of the mj-sterious process of decay, or of the numerous 

 diseases tliat attack our trees and plants. Yet that active progressive spirit which is characteristic 

 of the universal Yankee Xation, and only laughs at difficulties, is earnest in penetrating these mys- 

 teries, and the result of these labors and experiments must be valuable. 



Finally, that whicli should stimulate us to constant action, is the good we hope to accomplish in 

 redeeming the multitude from that semi-barbarism in which they live and labor, and educating them 

 up to that point where trees and fruits, and flowers will be a necessary appendage to every liumble, 

 as it now is to every aristocratic, home. 



OrFICERS ELECT FOE 1870 



President — A. C. Hammond, Warsaw. 

 Vice President— Dr. Charles Hay, Warsaw, 

 Secretary and Treasurer— Thomas Gregg, Hamilton. 



Meetings held monthly at tlie homes of members alternately, the last "Wednesday in 

 each month, at 10 o'clock, A. M. Membership fee, $1.00. 



TH. GREGG, Secretary. 



