278 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



LI^T FOR FAMILY USE. 



Summer — Carolina Red June, Early Harvest, Red Astrachan, Early Sweet Bough. 



Autumn — Rambo, Buckingham, Fall Pippin. 



Winter — Rhenish May, Newtown Pippin, Pryor's Red, Rawle's Jannet, Wine Sap, 

 Yellow Belle flower, Ortley, Smith's Cider, Rome Beauty, Willow Twig and Bailey's 

 Sweet. 



LIST FOR MARKET. 



Summer — Red Astrachan, Carolina Red June, Benoni, Fall Pippin. 

 Autumn — Yellow Belle flower, Pennsylvania Red Streak, Rambo. 

 Winter — Rhenish May, Newtown Pippin, Pryor's Red. Baltimore Red, Wine Sap, 

 Rawle's Jannet, Rome Beauty, Smith's Cider, Ortley, Bailey's Sweet. 



DOUGLAS COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The Douglas county Horticultural Society was organized 'June 15th, 186S, and the 

 following oflicers elected : Dr. J. L. Reat, President ; M. Noel, Vice President ; E. 

 Diggy, Secretary ; Jas. A. Smith, Treasurer; B. Sweet, was elected to act with the 

 officers as an executive committee of five. 



The constitution fixes the time of the annual meeting on the first Saturday of Octo- 

 ber, at which time the officers shall be elected. 



At the annual meeting on the 5th of September, the president, J. L. Reat, read the 

 following address : 



Ladies and Gentlemen : — In my address to-day, I shall refer to a number of topics, 

 but discuss none at length — shall use the language of another wheD it appears most 

 apposite — giving you freedom and material for criticism. 



Humboldt appears to have been the first to draw the attention of botanists to the con- 

 nection between the distribution of vegetables and the distribution of heat on the 

 surface of the globe. His essay, on the geography of plants, brought to light the fact, 

 that starting from the equator and advancing to the 'pole, in either hemisphere, the 

 mean annual temperature declines as the latitude becomes greater, and in succession a 

 series of vegetable zones, merging gradually into each other, though each, where best 

 marked, perfectly distinguished from the succeeding, is encountered. 



In the tropics we have the palms, which give so striking a characteristic to the for- 

 ests, the broad leaved bananas and the great climbing plants, which throw themselves 

 from stem to stem like the rigging of a ship. Next follows a zone of evergreen woods, 

 in which the orange and citron come to perfection. 



Beyond this another of deciduous trees — the oak, the chesnut and the fruit trees, 

 with which, in this climate, we are so well acquainted, and here the great climbers of 

 the tropics are replaced by the hop and the ivy. 



