STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY- 3 



THURSDAY, P. M. 



1 Report of ad interim Committee on Peaches and Plums, E. S. Hull. 



2 Paper on Economic \"egctable Gardening, - Jonathan Periam. 



2 — Paper on the sudden appearance and disappearance 



of Noxious Insects, - Dr. Wm. Le Baron, State Entomologist. 



THURSDAT EVENING. 

 I — Essay, "The effects of Settlement and Cultivation 



on Fruit Culture," - - by Robert Manning of Boston. 



2 — Paper on the Influence of Wines upon the American 



People, , by Dr. C. W. Spaulding, of Kirkswood, Mo. 



FRJDAT, A.M. 

 1 — Paper — Landscape Gardening, - . - - - John Blaib. 

 *2 — Reports of Committees. 

 3 — Unfinished business. Adjournment. 



W. C. Flagg, President. 

 O. B. Galusha, Secretary. 



Judge A. Kitchell, of Galesburg, President of the Galesburg Horti- 

 cultural Society, called the convention to order at 9.30 A. M., and, in 

 behalf of said Society, delivered the following address of welcome : 



Mr. President and Gentlcfnen of the State Horticultural Society: 

 In behalf of the citizens of Galesburg, and especially of the mem- 

 bers of our City Horticultural Society, I offer you a hearty welcome. 

 We are thankful to you and to our enterprising townsman. Dr. Humph- 

 rey, through whom you were invited hither, for giving us this visit. 

 With cheerful hearts our citizens greet you as laborers and scholars in 

 a noble science. 



The Almighty in his goodness has vouchsafed to us an infinite variety 

 of beautiful and useful trees, plants, and flowers, and of luscious and 

 nourishing fruits. Horticulture has analyzed and classified them, and, by 

 infinite pains and experiment, brought forth a catalogue of the choicest, 

 but as tlie old adage required " a bitter with every sweet," so we find 

 that in this the enemy " hath sought out many inventions." With blight 

 and mildew, with bugs and borers, beetles and parasites everywhere, 

 we find that in all tree, and plant, and fruit life, there are ravaging 

 destroyers. 



Your programme promises us a rich feast. The bill of fare has, 

 many things of special interest to us. Calling to mind the many black- 

 ened and dead pear, cherry, and other fruit h*ecs of the past season, 

 besides the withered and blighted evergreens, and looking Ijack over our 

 scanty harvest of fruits, of which we found scarce a peach or applc^ 

 pear, ]Mum, or cherry, that was not inhabited by worn^s f^\\(\ ^urculios^ 

 or prematurely bitten by birds, we arc greatly in hopp that you hayej 

 come to us with fresh stores of knowledge and inv{.,r\tjQns against thesa 

 evils. I have no right to anticipate the feast, or t'j meddle in the er^^^^ 



