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This resolution was adopted. 



The chair appointed 'on the resolution offered by Mr. Smith, 

 Messrs. James M. Smith, W. W. Field and A. A. Arnold. 



The committee reported the following resolution, which was 

 adopted by the convention: 



" Whereas, It is understood that the Board of Regents of the 

 University of Wisconsin have under their control a certain sum of 

 money, a part of which may be used in their discretion for the ad- 

 vancement of the various industries of the state; therefore, 



" JZesolved, That this joint convention requests the said Board 

 of Regents to procure suitable persons to hold conventions in dif- 

 ferent parts of the state, for the purpose of disseminating infor- 

 mation of value to those engaged in the different branches of agri- 

 culture and horticulture and other useful industries. 



^Resolved further, That we request the presidents of the Agri- 

 cultural Society, the State Horticultural Society, and the State 

 Dairymen's Association, to confer with said Board of Regents, and 

 aid, so far as possible, the advancement of the objects sought to be 

 attained." 



PLANT DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING. 



JONATHAN PERIAM, 

 President Northern Horticultural Society of Illinois. 



In all the departments of agriculture, whether in husbandry, 

 stock-breeding, pomology, gardening, floriculture, arboriculture, and 

 even in landscape gardening, the province of the successful opera- 

 tor is to assist nature in the development of plants or objects for 

 use, or the gratification of the senses. I propose, this evening, to 

 inquire into something of plant development, and the art of so 

 training as to produce the best results with the means at hand. So 

 far as mere development is concerned, we have only to look about 

 us everywhere, where wild forms of our more common fruits, flow- 

 ers and vegetables are found, and witness for ourselves the won- 

 derful modifications that have been brought about by successful 

 cultivation, through longer or shorter spaces of time, according to 

 the nature of the plant to be operated on, or the skill and care of 

 operators. 



