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in wliich any unusual disease may exist, which may or may not be the " con- 

 tagious yellows." They shall cause careful microscopical and chemical inves- 

 tigations to be made of healthy and diseased wood, leaves, and fruits; also 

 chemical analyses of soils, which may aid in such investigation, and shall report 

 at the annual fair of 1873. 



Mr. J. C. Holmes, from the committee on jflowers, submitted a report in which 

 they say they found on exhibition several well-grown, healthy plants from the 

 green-house of N. & C. Chilson of Battle Creek ; also, a few plants and a 

 bouquet from the green-house of Mrs. Boehme. The former consists of roses, 

 fuchsias, carnations, callas, Chinese primrose, euphorbia, cuphea, veronica, 

 abutilon, altheas, geranium, etc.; also a pot of scarlet geraniums was specially 

 beautiful; having been cut back, it had grown about sis inches high and cov- 

 ering a diameter of about eighteen inches, the whole being covered with blos- 

 soms and healthy leaves, so that no bare stems of the plant are seen. 



A few choice plants from the greenhouse of Mrs. Boehme, as well as the 

 bouquet, show fine taste in selection and skill in the management of the green- 

 house. 



Subsequent to the writing of the report a fine collection of cut flowers was 

 brought in by the Messrs. Chilson. 



During the afternoon there was placed upon the President's table a beautiful 

 specimen of the " Christmas Eose," just taken from the garden of Mrs. Erastus 

 Worrell, of Battle Creek, and which was found bursting its bud into bloom in 

 the midst of the snow and ice. It formed the center of a circle of wonder and 

 admiration as it lay in its bed of snow. 



The President announced the following committees, and the Society 

 adjourned till 7 o'clock P. M. 



On Wines. — Prof. E. C. Kedzie, of Lansing; L. G. Bragg, of Kalamazoo ; E. 

 W. Pendill and Geo. P. Burrell, of Battle Creek. 



On Resolutions. — W. W. Woolnough and Chas. Merritt, of Battle Creek ; L. 

 G. Bragg, Kalamazoo ; J. D. Husted, Lowell ; S. L. Fuller, Grand Eapids. 



WEDNESDAY EVENING. 



Upon reassembling at a quarter to seven o'clock the President announced 

 the following committee to examine and report upon the " Yellows," according 

 to the resolution adopted at the afternoon session : Prof. J. C. Holmes, of De- 

 troit ; Hezekiah G. Wells, of Kalamazoo ; S. 0. Knapp, of Jackson ; Prof. E. C. 

 Kedzie, of Lansing, consulting chemist, the active chemist and microscopist to 

 be added to the committee hereafter. 



The Secretary read communications from Judd & Hand, of Hart, Oceana 

 county, relative to the Wagener apple; from H. H. Goodwin, of Ionia, recom- 

 mending as the best sis varieties of apples for Michigan, in his opinion, to be 

 the Wagener, Spy, Eussett, Baldwin, Greening, and Januetting, also espressing 

 his sense of the advantages resulting from thorough organization and research 

 on the part of orchardists and fruit men. 



A letter from T. J. Eamsdell, of Manistee, was read, giving an account of the 

 condition of the fruit prospects in that vicinity. Of peaches there will be 

 probably half a crop. Apples are good. The peach blight has prevailed to 



