56 GENERAL HISTORY. 



Kellpy's Island. Messrs. Welz and Bateham gave their testimony against the 

 sparrow, while Mr. Newton spoke in his favor. 



Mr Bateham gave a minute description of what is known as the Cape 

 Fruit House, a building so constructed as to keep fruit at a very low and equa- 

 ble temperature without the use of ice or other refrigerating material for the 

 purpose of retarding the ripening process till it can be profitably placed upon 

 the market. 



Professor Cook gave a short talk about currant worms, rose slugs, cut- 

 worms, peach borers, etc., with the most convenient and satisfactory means of 

 destroying them. 



The exhibits of plants and flowers, of wines and of fruits were excellent as 

 rejmrtcd by the several committees. 



K. F. Johnstone, chairman of the committee on resolutions, reported very 

 felicitously, and after adopting the same the society adjourned, a part to wit- 

 ness a review of the Hiver Raisin Navy and others to visit the Pointe de Peau 

 vineyards. 



The American Pomological Society held its fifteenth session at Chicago on 

 the 8th to lOtb of September, 1H75. 



The following persons a[)pointed jointly by the Governor of the State and 

 ill ■ State Pomological Society were in attendance as delegates: T. T. Lyon, 

 S'mth Haven; J. M. Sterling, Monroe; J. G. Ramsdell, Traverse City; I. E. 

 Il'.'crifrJtz, Monroe ; E. II. Reynolds, Monroe; W. J. Beal, Lansing; H. E. 

 Lidwt'll, South Haven; Edward Bradfield, Ada; H. Dale Adams, Kalama- 

 «<>..; P. C. Davis, Kalamazoo. 



The meeting was called here upon the invitation of the Hlinois Horticul- 

 tural Society, and its President, Dr. E. S. Hull, of Alton, who, within a few 

 shor' weeks, was to lay off the robes of office and take the final journey 

 through the dark valley, welcomed the society to the prairie State in a few 

 well chosen words. 



The attendance from abroad was large. The sessions were held at the 

 Grand Pacific Hotel and the exhibition of fruits at the Inter-State Exposition, 

 where a general exposition was at the same time in progress, to which all 

 members of the American Pomological Society, as well as exhibitors of fruits, 

 were allowed free admission. 



The committee on fruits exhibited report: ''That they have found a very 

 large and varied exhibition of fruits from twenty-two States and provinces 

 of North America and embracing the whole range of fruits generally culti- 

 vated — from the hardy apples of the extreme north to the semi-tropical 

 fruits of the gulf coast. The exhibition, as a whole, is much larger than 

 any heretofore made by this society, reaching the great number of five 

 thousand eight hundred and seventy-five plates of fruit, according to the 

 lists furnished to your committee. This would make a single row of plates 

 nearly a mile in length and far surpasses, as we believe, any similar exhi- 

 bition heretofore made on this continent. There were three thousand five 

 hundred dishes of apples, eighteen hundred of pears, forty-eight of peaches 

 (besides large quantities in baskets in duplicate), one hundred and fifty-four 

 of plums, two hundred and thirty-seven of grapes, thirteen of raspberries, 

 four of blackberries, nine of currants, one of strawberries, five of figs, nine 

 of oranges, two of lemons, four of pomegranates, two of bananas, one of 

 pine-apples, one of jujubes, one of olives, one of custard-apples, and one of 

 dates." 



The committee to award Wilder medals report: — 



