STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. I57 



For Vice-President of the Sixth District — Mr. Huggins nominated 



H. J. HYDE. 



For Vice-President of the Seventh District — Mr. Brown nominated 



p. U. WRIGHT. 



For Secretary — Mr. Starr nominated 



O. B. GALUSHA. 



For Assistant Secretary — Mr. Brown nominated 



H. J. DUNLAP. 



For Treasurer — Mr. Minkler nominated 



J. HUGGINS. 



The next business in order being the selection of a place for the next 

 Annual Meeting, 



Mr. Fletcher, in behalf of the citizens of Centralia, and of the 

 Centi-alia Fruit-Growers' Association, invited the Society to hold its next 

 meeting at that place. 



Prof. Turner spoke for the Morgan County Horticultural Society, 

 urgently requesting that the next meeting be held at Jacksonville. He 

 said he did not ask the Society there, because the citizens of Morgan 

 county were horticulturally worthy to have the Society go there, but 

 because tliey needed and craved the light and stimulus which such a 

 meeting would give to their Horticulture. 



Mr. Bryant said that while Jacksonville might be called the Athens 

 of Illinois, in regard to general knowledge, yet, as admitted by Prof. 

 Turner, her citizens were somewhat in horticulttiral darkness; and as 

 the province of this Society is to diffuse light as well as to cr.jate it, he 

 would favor going there. 



Prof. Burrill, in behalf of the Illinois Industrial University, 

 invited the Society to go there. He thought it would be well for ail 

 horticulturists of the State to see and know what steps are being tak^n 

 there to secure ultimate good to the horticultural interests of the State. 

 He would not urge that the Society go there for their next meeting, bat 

 hoped that if not, it would meet there in 1872. 



Mr. Edwards spoke in favor of Champaign, urging that there we^e 

 being inaugurated extensive experiments in Horticultin"e, which should 

 be examined into by this Society, that tlie horticultui'al department of the 

 University would be aided in its work by our presence and our counsels 

 — that the well known hospitality of the citizens of Champaign promises 

 us a cordial welcome. A rising vote was taken upon selecting Jackson- 

 ville as the place of holding the next meeting, which resulted in the 

 unanimous choice of that place. 



