(3 TkANSACTtONS OF THE ILLINOIS 



Negotiations with the Northern Illinois Horticultural Society re- 

 sulted in the publication of the transactions of that Society, to the 

 amount of io8 pages, for seventy dollars, supplying books for the full 

 amount at one dollar and thirty cents, postage free — the same rates as 

 members of this Society and other persons receive them. 



HORTICULTURAL MEETING AT BLOOMINGTON, Nov. 14, 1872. 



Pursuant to a call ordered by the Executive Board and signed by 

 the President and Secretary of this Society, a meeting of Horticulturists 

 of Illinois was held in Shroeder's Opera House, Bloomington, Nov. 14, 

 at which there were present all the members oi the Board, also F. K. 

 Phoenix, Dr. E. S. Hull, W. S. Robinson, A. M. Garland, Smiley Shep- 

 herd, J. Baldwin, Brainard Smith, and Dr. H. Schroeder. 



J. E. Starr, President of the State Society, was chosen President, 

 and O. B. Galusha, Secretary of the Society, was selected as Secretary 

 of the Convention. Hon. W. C. Flagg explained the requisitions of the 

 new Constitution as interpreted by the Governor, and agreed to by the 

 General Assembly, as relating to State appropriations and the necessity 

 of a reorganization of this Society to secure a continuance of such ap- 

 propriations. He stated that the bills for the reorganization of, and 

 appropriations for this Society which were agreed upon at the last an- 

 nual meeting had both passed the Senate, almost unanimously, but did 

 not make much if any progress in the House of Representatives, owing 

 perhaps, to a misapprehension, in the minds of the agricultural com- 

 mittee of the House of the true import and bearing of the bills. 



Copies of those bills were presented and read before the meeting, 

 and a free discussion of the end to be secured in a reorganization of the 

 State Society was had. 



All the speakers were desirous that a form of reorganization should 

 be agreed upon, which should operate justly and equally in fostering- the 

 Horticultural interests of all portions of the State and all Horticultural 

 organizations within the State. 



A committee was appointed to prepare forms of bills to be laid be- 

 fore the next General Assembly. 



The Convention took a recess of an hour during the absence of the 

 Committee. 



MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD. 



President Starr called the Executive Board of the State Horticul- 

 tural Society together, during the recess of the Convention. 



. Present, Messrs. Starr, Galusha, Bryant, and McWhorter. A gen- 

 eral programme of business for the' next annual meeting was agreed upon, 

 and warrants ordered drawn upon the Treasurer for the salary of the 

 Secretary and for the printing bills of Reade, Brewster, «& Co.; when the 

 Board adjourned. 



The Horticultural Convention reassembled at three o'clock, p. m.. 



