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by our state societies, and we must take it in a commercial 

 point of view. 



A. G. Tuttle — No doubt the forests are being de- 

 stroyed, but I believe that within the last year there has 

 been more trees destroyed by the fires in the state and by the 

 railroads, than by all the cutting that has been done in ten 

 years. You can go miles and miles northwest of here, and 

 see as far as you can see in every direction, nearly every- 

 thing in the tree line burned over. I think it would be well 

 to have a law compelling railroads to protect against fires 

 and so protect against this wholesale destruction of the 

 forests of this country. 



Prof . Chas. W. Garfield — I want to say a word more. 

 The meeting of the Pomological Society will occur the sec- 

 ond week in September in the city of Boston. It will re- 

 solve itself somewhat into a memorial meeting in remem- 

 brance of the valued services of Colonel Wilder of this 

 country. There will also be presented many valuable pa- 

 pers upon the science of pomology. Now I wish the State 

 Horticultural Society would have at least one delegate to 

 attend that convention. I can assure you he will return to 

 you many times over the trouble and expense incurred in 

 the new and rich things he will bring back to you. As sec- 

 retary of that organization, I invite you to send us a dele- 

 gate to Boston. 



I thank you, sir, and this society, for the courtesies and 

 treatment received here and the honor conferred upon me 

 by "your society. Lake Michigan may separate us in one 

 way, but the work of horticulture so binds us together that 

 no pride of state will ever over-ride the kindly feeling that 

 exists between us. I now bid you all a kind goodbye. 



Pres. J. M. Smith — We still have a little time. I should 

 like to have the society take some action if you desire to 

 send delegates to the Pomological Society, in Boston, and 

 the American Horticultural Society, that meets in Cleveland 

 next winter. If you desire to have them pay their own ex- 

 penses, all right. I should like to have some expression 

 from the society. 



