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LOCATION OF NEXT ANNUAL MEETING- 

 Prof. T. J. Burrii i — On behalf of the Champaign County Hor- 

 ticultural Society, invited the Society to Champaign. 



Mk. Stkw art — Presented an invitation from the Adams County 

 Horticultural Society, to this Society to hold its next meeting in Quincy. 



.After discussing the advantages of both places, and the probable 

 railroad facilities which may be afforded to members to reach each point, 

 the Society voted to hold the next meeting m C'hampaign, between the 

 first and fifteenth days of December — the precise time to be fixed by 

 the Executive Board. 



On motion of Mr. Wier, Mr. Mark Miller of Iowa was elected an 

 honorary member of this Society. 



REPORT OF THE FIFTH HORTICULTURAL DISTRICT. 



Mr. Pullen — Vice President in the Fifth Horticultural District 

 reported as follows: 



Mr. Prrsident and Gentlemen : 



In reporting on the Condition of Horticulture in the Fifth District, 

 I find myself almost entirely thrown upon my own resources — only one 

 of the seventeen correspondents in my district having responded to the 

 circular letter sent out by your Secretary. 



I am therefore unable to report intelligently for the whole district, 

 with many counties of which I am entirely nnacciuainted. 



I shall endeavor to be brief and confine my report to the portion of 

 the district lying east of the Illinois C'entral Railroad and immediately 

 adjacent thereto, from Duquoin on the south to Vandalia on the main 

 line, and Neoga on the Chicago Branch, north. This embraces probably 

 three-fourths of the territory in the district, which is os])ccially devoted to 

 Horticulture. 



It is l)elieved, also, that over the section above referred to, the re- 

 sults and conditions of the fruit rrop for eighteen seventy-two are much 

 the same: and that what applies to one locality will apply with equal 

 force, or nearly so, to all the rest. 



The amount of fruit raised was immense — far exceeding any for- 

 mer year. 



The Apple crop has been abundant, and uniformly of good ([uality, 

 notwithstanding the extreme heat and drouth of the season ; owing to 

 these causes, however, the winter varieties matured too early and are 

 not keeping as well as usual. 



Varieties seemed to vie with each other in the perfection and 

 quality of their fruits — while many of these same varieties for three or 

 four years past have been comparatively worthless. Spur-blight was ob- 

 served to be more prevalent than last year, though there was less of the 

 common blight, than for two or three years past. A species of blight with 



