STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 151 



STEREOSCOPIC VIEWS OF YELLOWS. 



Flagg — I offer the following : 



Seaohted, That the Stereoscopic views of peach trees affected by the " yellows," taken 

 by order of the ad interim committee, be distributed In the discretion of the President to 

 members of the Society, resident in the peach districts, and to the local Horticultural 

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Carried. Adjourned. 



FOURTH DAY — MORNING SESSION. 



Prayer was offered by Rev. Mr. Delano. 



The Committee on President's Address made the following report : 



The committee to whom the President's address was referred, respectfully report 

 that they consider that production so complete in itself, so clearly comprehending the 

 present condition and wants of Horticulture in our State, and the duties of this Society 

 in endeavoring to meet those wants, they regard it unnecessary to add anything to its 

 suggestions and recommendations. They take pleasure in endorsing its hopeful antici- 

 pations of important results from the investigations of the Committee Ad Interim, and 

 also add that the reports from that Committee to this meeting have fully justified those 

 anticipations. They also invite particular attention to that portion of the address 

 relating to the Industrial University. The deep interest and important part which 

 this Society has taken in the organization of this institution is well known ; and in the 

 judgment of your committee it is still the duty of this Society, not only to watch the 

 progress of this institution, but to aid in its effort to carry out the object of its original 

 design. P. R. WRIGHT, 



J.W.COCHRAN, 

 D. B. WTER. 



Mr. Wier, from the Committee on Proprietary Rights, made the 

 following report : 



As one member of the Committee on Proprietary Rights, I would respectfully report: 

 That, expecting to meet one or both of the members of that committee, and having 

 had no chance of consulting with the other members, I do not see how I can give this 

 fyii-ii-ty Mich a report as the importance ol the subject demands. I nave taken the 

 responsibility of corresponding with some of the more prominent Horticulturists of 

 the middle and eastern States, and also with some of the ofllcers of the societies, 

 requesting them to lay the mutter before their societies. I find them all to be, without 

 any exception, favorable to the passage of such laws by Congress a* would secure to 

 the originators of new fruits, their natural and self-evident rights in the same. Some of 

 the eastern socicti es, (among them the Lake Shore Wine Growing Association, and the 

 Farmer's Club of New York,) have appointed committees to bring the matter before 



