300 TRANSACTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS 



LOCAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



ONARGA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY FOR 1S7O. 



OFFICERS: 



President — E. D. Robbing. 

 Vice President — Horace Pinney. 

 Recording Secretary — J. D. Van Norman. 

 Corresponding Secretary — Lyman Pike. 

 Treasurer — H. Pinney. 

 Librarian — -J. W. Owen. 



The abundant harvests of the present year have done much to encour- 

 age us in our labors for the future, and we hope tliat in the years to come 

 it may be said that we are neither dead nor sleeping. 



Our crops of Blackberries, Gi^apes, and Apples for this year, were 

 abundant; other fruits, for the most part, fully medium. 



The fruits in the following list will be found generally profitable in our 

 locality. Many others are doing well; some not fully tested. 



Apples — Red Astrachan, Sweet June, Early Harvest, Summer 

 Qiieen, Fameuse, Rambo, Yellow Bellflower, Limber Twig, Maiden's 

 Blush, Tolman's Sweet, Domine, Milam, Seek-no-further, Vandevere 

 Pippin, Winesap, Smoke House, Smith's Cider, Willow Twig, Wag- 

 oner. 



Blackberries — Lawton. 



Cherries — Early Richmond, Gov. Wood, English Morello. 



Currants — Red arid White Dutch, and Cherry. 



Gooseberries — Houghton's Seedling. 



Grapes — Concord, Clinton, Delaware, Hartford Prolific, Massasoit, 

 Ives' Seedling. 



Pears — Louise Bonne de Jersey, Bartlett, Duchesse d'Angouleme. 



Besides these, there are many others that have done well, and very 

 many others that are being tested, of which we expect to report in the 

 future. 



The vegetable crops are large, with the exception of late potatoes, 

 which were much damaged by the Colorado Potato Bugs and dry 

 weather. 



Our Society, which has heretofore been a very good one in theory, 

 is this year becoming a really practical one, as the large crops of fruit 

 fully attest. 



