STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETV. lY 



The new management of the Industrial University calls for our 

 earnest sympathies ; and, so long as it endeavors to be of practical value 

 to the great interest of horticulture, it should be encouraged. The day 

 is past when a dissent from its management may be construed into a 

 hostility to the duties that are imposed upon it. Its horticultural depart- 

 ment, to a great extent, should supercede the necessity of private or 

 individual investigation and experiment. Let its errors of the past be 

 condoned by an honest, faithful endeavor in the future. 



Tree planting, for the past three years, has been almost a failure, 

 and both nurserymen and planters have become more or less discouraged ; 

 but we should now hope for a change in the seasons that shall give prom- 

 ise of better things in the future. For this reason we should begin anew 

 the planting of trees that shall make our homes of more value in money, 

 in health, in pleasure, and in social enjoyment. 



SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



O. B. Galusha, Secretary of the Society, presented and read his 

 Report, as follows : 



To the President and Members of the Illinois State Horticultural Society : 



In the introduction to volume six of the Transactions of this Society, 

 I mentioned one of the causes of delay in the publication of that volume; 

 but there are circumstances connected with, and resulting from, the 

 failure of the publishing house of Reade, Brewster tSc Co., which are nec- 

 essary to be known, that you may liave a full understanding of the action 

 of your Secretary, and the position of the Society. 



A contract, almost identical with those made for the publication of 

 volumes four and five, was entered into between Reade, Brewster & Co. 

 and myself, for the publication of volume six ; one of the stipulations 

 being the usual one of an advanced payment of five hundred dollars. 

 This amount was paid by an order on the Treasurer of the Society, as 

 our financial reports will show: but only sixty-four pages of the book 

 had been printed when the firm went into bankruptcy. The proportion- 

 ate value of the work done was about one hundred and sixty dollars, 

 leaving the firm indebted to the Society three hundred and forty dollars. 

 The affairs of the firm have not yet been settled, so that it is uncertain 

 what percentage of its indebtedness will be paid. 



As soon after the appointment of assignees as it could be effected, I 

 secured, through the assistance of Mr. C. F. Brewster, the use of the type 

 and presses of the late firm for a few weeks, and at once employed com- 

 positors, ])urchased materials, and the work on the book was resumed. 



When the work was within about two weeks of completion, the 

 creditors (assignees) gave orders to have the printing room closed. This, 

 of course, compelled another change ; and I soon arranged with the 



