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be a CurcuJio committee and a Blight committee, and a committee for each one of our 

 f i >« ■ - , o( whatever name, in every society, to Investigate and to experiment. 



And above all, Let every fruit-grower remember that eternal vigilance is the price of 

 fruit. 



TIL GREGG, Secretary. 



Dec. 1, 1808. 



OFFICERS FOR 1868. 

 Pr t—A.C. Hammond, Warsaw. 



i nl— George B J Worthen, Warsaw. 



Secretary and Treasurer — Thomas Gregg, Hamilton. 



Meetings. — Monthly, on last Wednesday of each month. Membership Fee, $1. 



HORTICULTURAL HISTORY AND CORRES- 

 PONDENCE. 



ADAMS COUNTY. 



By direction of the Adams County Horticultural Society, and in compliance with your 

 request, I hereby forward to you a short and hasty sketch of the Horticultural history of 

 this county, the originators and dates of early orchards, nurseries, and the present state 

 of its Fruit Interests. 



Adams County, Illinois, which lies in the great fruit-growing belt of the continent, 

 rejoices in a large breadth of soil particularly suited to the successful cultivation of every 

 variety of fruit adapted to the temperate zones — a fact which the early settlers were 

 sagacious enough to sec and enterprising enough to turn at once to practical account. 

 With many of them the setting out of the orchard was coeval with founding the home- 

 stead, and in many Localities these old orchards are still in vigorous growl hand bearing — 

 eloquent monuments of the enterprise and industry of our pioneer fathers, and valuable 

 legacies in product and example, linking their honored names In refreshened and grate- 

 ful remembrance with every recurring season. 



The first orchard set out in this county was by the venerable founder of the settle, 

 ment, Ez-Gov. John Wood, who for nearly half a century has beer prominently Identi- 

 fied with the history of Quincy and Adams County, ever foremost in every work pro- 

 motive of their interests and prosperity, and among the best of whose many good works 

 is the Impetus given to 1 1 1 * - great fruit-growing interests of the county, by his early ex- 

 ample as u Mi'M.-'ssful orchardist. 



In the Bpring of L830, Ex-Gov. Wood obtained some apple seed from a party at Atlas, 

 Pike County., Ills, and started anurscry, from which he planted bis present orchard in 

 the spring of 1824, having previously planted out peach seed, and such was his success 



