5'H i!(>Ai;i» di' .\(;i.'iiri.i'n;K. 



Warder, ('iiicinnati. (Hiio. Of tli(>s(> only live, 'I'lioniiis B. Morris, W. H. 

 Kasaii. K. V. Teas, John C. Teas and Al)iui' Trueblood, are living. 



Thoso who altcndrd tho first n'.uuiar iiit'ciiiig of the Society, on Jan- 

 uary S, IbUl, and bo'-a.iue nuMnbers lor tlio ensuing two years (the meet- 

 ings then being biennial), were Joseph Ashton, Clark County; George M. 

 Beeler. Marion County; John Conloy, Wayne County; D. V. Cully, Marion 

 County; Calvin I'li-tchor, Marion County; G. Goldsniitli, ^farion County; 

 Dr. J. C. Helm, Delaware County; Lewis Jones, Wayne County; William 

 B. Lipsey, Washington ('onnty; W. H. Loomis, Marion County; John A. 

 Matson, Putnam County; Dr. G. W. Mears, Marion County; C. S. Men- 

 denhall, Wayne County: William Miller, St. Joseph County; Thomas B. 

 Moi'ris, Wayne County; 1. D. G. Nelson, Allen County; Arclubald Simpson, 

 Knox County: .bilm Snepp, Johnson Count.v; John Pierce, Wayne County; 

 W. II. Kagan. rutn.ini ('onnt\ : ^\'. (i. Stevens, Wayne County; Ashael 

 Stone. Randolph County: E. Y. Teas, Wayne County; John C. Teas, Henry 

 County, and .lohn W. Tenbrook, Parke Covmty. Of these only four- 

 Thomas B. Morris. W. H. Kagan, and the Teas brothers— are now known 

 to be livhig. 



The officers elected at that time were: President, John A. Matson of 

 Putna)n County; Vice-Presidents. William Miller, St. Joseph County; 

 Barnabas C. Hobbs, Parke County; Oliver Albertson, Washington County, 

 and Lewis Jones, Wayne County; Treasurer, J. C. Teas. Henry County, 

 and Secretary, W. H. Loomis, Marion County. 



HORTICULTURAL REMINISCENCES. 



GRANVILLE COWING, MUNCIE. 



My acquaintance with Nature has been long and pleasant— covering a 

 period of seventy-five years. When five years old I often wandered among 

 the hills around my home in West Virginia, gathering fruits and flowers, 

 and I was soon able to identify almost every tree and shrub near my 

 home. It was probably in 1S30 that I first saw the tomato as it grew near 

 my path to school from a chance-sown seed. The fruit w^^s red and very 

 handsome, but I was warned not to touch it, as it was poisonous. I saw 

 it no more until ten years later, Avhen I met with it on the table of 

 General P. A. Hackleman,* in Rushville, Ind., who regarded it as a great 

 delicacy, and as one of the last and l^est gifts of Providence to man. 



'••General Hacklenuin was the only general officer from Indianii who felt in battle nt 

 the head of his men duruig tlie Civil War. 



