100 Wisconsin State Horticultural Society. 



Plums. — List rearranged so as to stand: Lombard, Imperial 

 Gage, Miner (native), Magnum Bonum, Yellow Egg, Eldridge, 

 Duane's Purple and De Soto (native). 



Mr. Stickney was inclined, from what little experience he had had, 

 and from accounts he had received, to think very favorably of the 

 De Soto, but thought it was high time to strike the Miner off from 

 the list. The tree grew very thrifty, was loaded with blossoms 

 but bore no fruit. He knew of no good crops out of Galena. 



Mr. Tuttle said there had been some good crops of the Miner 

 near Baraboo, but in an experience of twenty-five years he had 

 only raised three crops. It was the general impression that when 

 the tree gets age, we shall hear better reports of it. 



Mr. Stickney said his trees were ten years old, and six or eight 

 inches through; he had had an abundance of blossoms, but not a 

 sample of the fruit. 



Mr. Kellogg's experience was much the same; he had one tree 

 that had borne one crop, but all the others nothing. 



Evergreens. — List adopted same as last year. 

 Mr. Stickney, as committee to confer with the State Agricultural 

 Society in relation to the fair, reported as follows: 



Gentlemen of the State Horticultural Society: — Your commit- 

 tee to confer with the State Agricultural Society would report, that 

 the officers of said society are disposed to offer the same amount in 

 premiums for the horticultural department as last year, in case the 

 Horticultural Society do not secure the appropriation from the 

 state applied for; in the event the appropriation is received, then 

 each society to offer equal amounts, and any unawarded premiums to 

 revert to the Horticultural Society. 



Respectfully submitted, 



J. S. Stickney. 

 Report adopted. 



On motion of Mr. Plumb, Mr. Peter M. Gideon, of Minnesota, 



was made an honorary member of the society. 



Society adjourned. 



2 P. M. 



The society was called to order by the president. 



Reorganization of the Society. — The committee appointed 

 to consider the subject of applying to the legislature for an appro- 



