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the fall I have well decayed manure put around the roots of 

 all fruit trees and shrubbery. ]\Iy[dahlia, gladioli and other 

 bulbs are stored in the cellar. 



Fruit and flower culture involves very little labor if weeds 

 are kept down and the soil well enriched. 



New or Specially Valuable Sorts, etc. 



I have tested hundreds of new varieties — I always note 

 those marked hardy and give them the preference — and us- 

 ually am successful in their culture. I wish particularly to 

 call attention to the culture of the purple leaved barberry 

 and high bush cranberry, both useful and ornamental. 

 They grow luxuriantly and are no trouble and well repay 

 for a little care in planting. 



A also want to call attention to the Glendale strawberry. 



I have for ornamental trees cut-leaved maple, horse chest- 

 nut, wild plum, oak and ash. 



I shall be glad to give any information in regard to gar- 

 dening or fruit culture which I may have omitted in this 

 brief report. 



REPORT OF JANESVILLE HORTICULTURAL 



SOCIETY. 



Our society is twenty-one years of age, being organized 

 in 18CG, The changes in membership are but few. At our 

 annual meeting held October 27, 1886, the following officers 

 were elected : 



President — Geo. Kellogg. 



Vice President — James Helms. 



Secretary — E. B. Heimstreet. 



Treasurer — J. B. Whiting. 



Geo. J. Kellogg, E. B. Heimstreet and James Helms were 

 appointed delegates to the meeting of the State Horticul- 

 tural Society to be held February, 1887. 



The June meeting was a decided success. There were 

 fifty-three members of the State Society present. The best 

 show of fruit ever exhibited before, and by the society. 



