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pitality Lave icndcicd our visit an occasion tf> which we will ever reveit with pleasure. 

 Teiulerintj theni our sincere thanks, we trust that they may realize a verihcation of the 

 promise, ' It ib more blessed to give than to receive." 



Samuel Ei:i\varus, t „ 



H r- Wni-r-iviAK, I Committee. 

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The President spoke of the importance of the meeting of the 

 American Pomological Society' in P)Ost()n next September, and of the ad- 

 vantages of that occasion for making a display of Illinois fruits. He 

 said we are able to place more fine fruit upon the tables there than any 

 other state in the Union, and hoped we would make such an exhibition 



as would do credit to the State. 



Several members spoke of thr necessity of individual effort in 



making up collections of fruit for tiiis important exhibition. 



iVlk. Earle — 1 feel a good deal of interest in this exhibition. I 

 had the only collection of fruit'from this State last year at Richmond- — 

 1 had there a larger collection of apples than was exhibited from any 

 other state, and in some respects the most valuable. In the opinion of 

 many, my collection should have received the premium. I did not think 

 the awards were entirely on the merits of the varieties. 



Judge Brown — We must see that we have a large variety of red 

 apples next time.- — (Laughter.) 



Mr. Earle — I think we can exhibit five or six hundred varieties, if 

 we make an effort. I was perhaps unfortunate in taking to Richmond 

 many kinds of apples that were not handsome, but for size and excel- 

 lence were not, as a collection, surpassed. 



Mr. Huggins — I move that we now adjourn. 



The President — Before we part, I desire to return my sincere 

 thanks to all the members of the Society, for their uniform courtesy to 

 me, and to one another; and in parting from you, it is with the hope 

 that we shall all meet again at Champaign next year. 



The Society then adjourned. 



