STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 2 I 



While we fully appreciate the importance and value of the horticul- 

 tural interest of the State, and the desirability of union of action between 

 the State Agricultural Society and the State Horticultural Society, in 

 order to the best development of said interest, and are willing to meet 

 the Executive Committee, or a special committee of the Horticultural 

 Society, in tlie preparation of a premium list for tlie next annual Fair, 



Resolved^ That this Society can not with propriety accede to the 

 prop 'sitions as embraced in their resolutions. 



Resolved^ That this Board are willing to meet a committee of con- 

 ference from the Horticultural Society in the preparation of a premium 

 list, and suggest Thursday P. M, as the time for such conference. 



Resolved^ That the action of this Board be communicated to the 

 proper officers of the Horticultural Society at once. 



E. COBB, 



A. B. McCONNELL, 

 H. D. EMERY, 



Committee." 

 The report of the committee was adopted by the Board of the 

 Illinois State Agricultural Society. 



The President called for the Secretary's Report, which was read as 



follows : 



REPORT OF SECRETARY. 



At the close of the last annual meeting, it was agreed between Mr. 

 I'lagg and myself that, as he had collected and prepared the matter in 

 manuscript thus far for the volume of Transactions for 1869, he should 

 complete the editorial work of the volume. Indeed, no other one could 

 do the work without performing very much extra labor, and consequently 

 in\ olving extra expense. I have, therefore, nothing to report relative to 

 that volume. 



The first of my official duties was the calling a meeting of the 

 Executive Committee of this Society, by order of the President, at the 

 Industrial University Building, and in recording the action taken thereat, 

 which I report as follows, viz : 



A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Illinois State Horti- 

 cultural Society was held in the room of the Professor of Agriculture, 

 in the Industrial University, Champaign, March Sth. 



Present: Hon. W. C. Flagg, President; O. B. Galusha, Secretary; 

 A. M. Brown, T. McWhorter, and Elmer Baldwin. 



A repcjrt from the Treasurer showed the entire available funds of the 

 Society to be $2,850.58. 



The President stated that he thought the volume of Transactions for 

 1869 would cost about the same for printing as last year, or about 

 $1,300. 



Resolutions were adopted to print the minutes of the Northern 

 Illinois Horticultural .Society with ours, they paying therefor the sum of 

 $175, and receiving paper-bound cojiies for members of that Society, 

 who are not members of the State Society, and bound volumes for those 



