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is mostly eaten raw, canned, and made into jelly. There is not much 

 inducement to plant when the price for grapes is two and one-half cents 

 per pound, as they were sold in market for that price the past season. 



Three or four seasons last past have been disastrous to Strawberries , 

 on account of drouth and the ravages of the white grub. The past sea- 

 son the vines have grown finely, and are in good condition for a crop of 

 fruit next season. The usual manner of growing them is the matted 

 system, and when the vines do not grow enough to cover the ground 

 grass and weeds do the ffiatting. 



Raspberries have done well, and are more planted than any other 

 small fruit. Black are more planted tlian red in this vicinity ; of my 

 own I have as many red as black, and find them fully as profitable. 



Currants were a tolerably fair crop, but are not usually cultivated 

 well enough to make them profitable. 



Gooseberries, good crop, but not very profitable. 



Blackberries have not been planted much. Some have tried them, 

 but they have been frequently killed by the cold, and have not been pro- 

 ductive enough to encourage people to plant them. 



TUESDAY EVENING. 



The hall was well filled in the evening to listen to the reading of the 

 two essays which appear below. 



Immediately on coming together the names of H. B. Elwanger and 

 W. C. Barry, of Rochester, N. Y., were presented as visiting delegates 

 from the Western New York Horticultural Society, and they were, by a 

 unanimous vote of the Society, elected Honorary Members of the Illinois 

 State Horticultural Society. 



These gentlemen responded in a becoming and appreciative manner, 

 and invited this Association to send delegates to their Annual Meeting, 

 to be held in January, and the Society appointed the Hon. W. C. Flagg, 

 of Moro, as a delegate to that meeting. 



THE PROGRAMME 



For the evening was to have been reports on Entomology, by Prof. 

 Cyrus Thomas, of Carbondale, our State Entomologist, and Prof. C. V. 

 RiLEV, of St. Louis, State Entomologist for Missouri, and by others; 

 but these gentlemen being absent a new order of exercises was extempo- 

 rized. 



