270 TRANSACTIONS OF THE KANKAKEE 



Mr. President: 



The committee appointed to examine into the feasibility of pub- 

 lishing a horticultural paper or printing the proceedings of the So- 

 ciety in pamphlet form, submit the following report: 



Considering it impracticable to publish a paper, we received 

 seabd bids from the printing offices of this city, to print, monthly, 

 the proceedings of the Society. We find the lowest bid is given by 

 the Times office. 



Believing it to be low enough to warrant a trial we recommend 

 the Society to take action with a view to publishing its proceedings 

 for the remainder of the year of 1883. 



A. H. BuET, 

 Henry Mortimer, 

 Henry S. Bloom, 

 Len. Small, 



Committee. 



Following this report several motions were made that failed to 

 pass, and an extended discussion ensued, participated in by Messrs. 

 Burt, Bloom, M. Barnard, A. L. Small, Mortimer, Miner, Cunning- 

 ham, 0. W. Barnard, Lane, Mrs. Decker and others. 



It was moved and carried that we accept the Times'' bid, which, 

 in substance, is as follows: 



"We agree to furnish five hundred copies of the proceedings of 

 the Kankakee Valley Horticultural Society, loose sheets, same as 

 sample exhibited, for ninety-five cents per page. 



Livingston & Shaw." 



orchards. 



Mr. Mortimer, committee, reported verbally that the fruit buds 

 of cherry trees, as far as he has observed, are dead, and apples con- 

 siderably injured. 



VEGETABLES. 



Mr. Cunningham, committee: 



Mr. President: 



My report upon vegetables and small fruits must necessarily be 

 short at this time of the year. As far as I can learn a great many 

 potatoes have been frozen. Those not injured have kept remarkably 

 well. Turnips likewise. Many strawberries are fresh looking, 

 although they lay under a complete coating of ice under the cover- 

 ing. Raspberry, canes, in my judgment, have not been injured in 

 the least. The Lawton blackberry will, I think, give me some fruit. 

 The Concord grape, I think, will give two-thirds of a crop. Cherries 

 are reported killed again. I have faith in getting a pretty fair crop. 



