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On Floriculture, Miss Longwell said that we were evidently pro- 



gressing. 



J. T. Johnson — Our orchards depend much upon the weather 

 in the near future. It is not safe to make an extended report at 

 present. Some fine specimens of the new crop are on exhibition. 



H. D. Brown said that for productiveness the Crescent straw- 

 berry leads the list of seventeen on the tables. 



C. N. Dennis said the Longfellow was the finest strawberry he 

 had this year. 



Grain crops, J. L. Piggott said, depend in a great degree upon 

 the weatner. No extended report. 



The secretary was authorized to make the usual exhibition of 

 fruits abroad this year. 



A rousing vote of thanks was given the ladies of Hamilton for 

 their untiring efforts in floriculture. 



Col. Reed and Capt. Anderson, of Keokuk, Iowa, gave a hearty 

 invitation to attend the Old Settlers' meeting to be held in their city 

 on the fourth of July. 



W. N. Grover, Dr. Chas. Hay, and A. C. Hammond, Committee 

 on Obituaries, reported the following resolutions: 



IN MEMORIAM. 



The late J. S. Johnson, the subject of this sketch, was born in 

 Jefferson county, N. Y., October 2, 1818, and died on his farm in 

 Wythe township, Hancock county. 111., April 28, 1883. His parents' 

 family^ consisted of five children — four sons and one daughter. In 

 1843 he emigrated to Rockford in this state, and was employed in 

 teaching school. The next year he went to Adams county, where he 

 was engaged in teaching for the greater part of three years, and while 

 there, on the 20th day of May, 1847, he was married to Miss Judith 

 Booth, who survives him. In the following August he moved witb 

 his young wife to a fann near Nauvoo, where he remained until 

 1851, when he purchased and settled on a farm in Wythe township, 

 where he resided (with the exception of two years spent in Canton, 

 Missouri, where he went to place his children in college) until his 

 death. 



But little is known of his history before coming west, but what 

 is known of his subsequent career will justify the statement that his 

 opportunities for culture were above the average. He possessed an 



