FRUIT GROWERS' AS30CIATI0K 293 



The second annual exhibition of the Association was held in 

 connection with that of the Milwaukee Horticultural Society. 

 It was in every respect perfectly successful, and fully confirmed 

 the anticipations inspired by that of the preceeding year. These 

 exhibitions, with tliose of the State Agricultural Society, were 

 of especial value in dissipating a prevailing idea that fine fruits 

 could not be as well grown in Wisconsin as in the Eastern States. 



A convention of the Association was held at Whitewater on 

 the 12th and 13th day of December, 1855. Its object was, by a 

 comparison of fruits and by the facts elicited in the discussions 

 of practical men, to determine, as far as possibly, the value of 

 the varieties on cultivation, to the fruit growers of this State. 



The discussions at this convention were reported, and -with 

 several articles on the culture of fruits, were published in the 

 Transactions of the Association for the year 1855. 



