266 TRANSACTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS 



At the annual meeting of March, 1869, tlie Horticultural Committee 

 was made to stand as follo\AS : A. M. Brown, Pullen, Galusha. Pearson, 

 and Edwards. This Committee concurred in the plans already given, and 

 recommended certain appropriations for currying out the plans of the 

 Committee. (See page 81 of Second Annual Report of Trustees.) 



After amending", authorizing Prof. Bliss to purchase and receive the 

 trees, the Committee's report was adopted. During the fall and winter 

 of 1869, Prof. Bliss contracted for the following trees, which were le- 

 ceived and planted, mostly in nursery rows, in the spring of 1870 : 



From W. A. Nourse, Moline. 111., 

 20,000 White Ash. 

 10,000 White Sugar Maple. 

 6,000 White Elm. 



From D. B. Wier, Lacon, 111., 



7,300 Silver Maple. 

 600 White Ash. 

 From Samuel Edwards, La Moille, 111., 

 14,000 Norway Spruce. 



2,000 Nonvay Pine {rcsinosus). 



3,000 Butternut. 



2,000 Black Spruce. 



8,000 White Willow (cuttings). 



6,000 Tulip. 



8,000 White Pine. 



8,000 Black Sugar Maple. 



4,000 Bass Wood. 



3,000 Hemlock. 



From Storrs & Harrison, Painesville, O., 

 6,000 American Chestnut. 



From Robert Douglass & Son, Waukegan. 

 250 American Arbor Vitie. 

 50 Red Cedar. 



To these there were added in the Spring of 1S70: 



From F. K. Phosnix, Bloomington, 111., 

 130 White Elm. 

 170 White Pine. 

 88 Sugar Maple. 



From Messrs. Boatman & Co., Champaign, 111., 

 2,500 Osage Orange. 



From Purdy & Hance, South Bend, Ind., 

 1 1 Varieties Gi'apes. 



4 " Currants. 



2 " Gooseberries. 

 14 " Raspben-ies. 

 it^ " Strawberries. 



