Meetings of the Executive Board 



OF THE 



Illinois State Horticultural Society, 



JULY MEETING. 



The Executive Board met in compliance with the call of the 

 President, in Dr. Schroeder's parlors, at Bloomington. Illinois. July 

 10th, at 3:30 p, m. 



There were present President 0. B. Galusha, Messrs. Arthur 

 Bryant. Jr., A. G. Humphrey, A. C. Hammond, and Len. Small. 



The committee appointed to confer with the Agricultural Board 

 reported that they had donated of the Society's funds one hundred 

 and fifty dollars, which, with fifty dollars appropriated by the Agri- 

 cultural Board, they divided into three sums to be offered as 

 premiums at the State Fair, at Chicago, September, 1883, as follows: 

 Best and largest display of fruits by society or individual, $100; 

 second, $60; third, $40. 



It was moved and carried that the next annual meeting be held 

 on the 18th, 19th, and 20th of December, 1883. 



Len. Small offered the following resolutions, which were unani- 

 mously adopted: 



Resolved, That we, the Executive Board of the Illinois State 

 , Horticultural Society, tender our thanks to the last General A-sembly 

 and to the Governor of Illinois, for the manifestation of their appre- 

 ciation of the work which our Society is ]ierforuii]ig, and for the 

 assistance they have rendered us in appropriating $4,000 for the 

 the purpose of defraying the expense of publishing our proceedings. 



