REPORT OF THE SECRETARY ^,5^ 



OF TH8 



EOT .,AL 



GARDIHN 



MICHIGAN STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Cascade, Keut Co., December 31, 1874. 



To the Secretary of Stale: 



SiK, — Section six of an act to provide for the incorporation of societies for 

 the promotion of pomology, horticulr.ure, and the kindred sciences and arts, in 

 the Stale of Michigan, approved April 15, 1871, provides that * it shall be the 

 duty of the Secretary of said State society to make and transmit to the Secre- 

 tary of State a report of the transactions of said society, includmg copies of 

 papers read at its meetings, reports of exhibitions held, and of facts collected 

 by correspondence or otherwise, at the end of the month of December of each 

 year, said report to be printed in similar form and number of copies as the 

 reports and transactions of the State Board of Agriculture and State Agricult- 

 ural Society, under the direction of the Secretary of State." 



In compliance with the above legal requisition, I respectfully submit for 

 publication the accompanying Report for 1874, with supplementary papers. 



J. P. THOMPSON^, 

 Secretary of the Michifjan State Pomological Society. 



