68 GENERAL HISTORY. 



On Wednesday morning the session was opened by an address from H. Dale 

 Adams on '' Crab Apples — How to Grow and How to use Them." 



Prof essor Beal followed with an address on "Horticultural Experiments," 

 considering their importance as a means of establishiug or eliciting facts ai.d 

 general information, together with the qualifications requisite in the experi- 

 menter. 



T. T. Lyon followed with a long and exhaustive paper on "The Necessity 

 for a State Fruit Catalogue, the Purposes which it should be make to Sub- 

 serve, together with the Material to be Embraced," accompanying the paper 

 with an illustration of the proposed form. 



The recommendations of the paper were referred to a connnittee consisting 

 of H. Dale Adams, C. N. Merriman and A. G. Gulley, with instructions to 

 report at the June meeting. 



At the opening of the Wednesday afternoon session a poem was read from 

 the pen of John Southard, of Oxford, after which came a paper by I. S. Lin- 

 derman, of South Haven, on " Economy in Marketing Fruits." 



Henry W. Lord, of Pontiac, then read a paper on " Evergreens — Their 

 Uses for Ornament and Economy on the Farm." The paper opened with 

 numerous fanciful allusions and poetical quotations, and proceeded with val- 

 uable suggestions, intermingled with illustrations both mythological and 

 practical. 



Mrs. A. E. Green, of Farmiugton, very appositely followed with a paper 

 on "Flower Gardening as a Home Accompaniment." 



Mr. Thomas in a few words of comments and inference said, among other 

 good things: "I am a very plain man, and perhaps most of you would not 

 think, from a gaze at my exterior, that I am a passionate lover of flowers, but 

 there is nothing in which I take greater delight ; and, from a long experience 

 in farm life, I can say that although I have given a great many hours to the 

 cultivation of flowers, the time thus spent has been by no means lost. I am 

 no poorer for my flower garden. I am richer in all that makes life worth 

 living." 



The committee on exhibits, other than apples, made a pleasant and fanci- 

 ful report, comprising a variety of items. 



This was followed by a preamble and resolutions reported by the committee 

 on the decease of John Gilbert, of Ovid; Judge Monroe, of South Haven; 

 William Bort, of Niles, and Henry Seymour, of Grand Kapids. 



A letter was read from E. F. Guild, of East Saginaw, giving his method of 

 preserving grapes, which is by gathering them during a dry day, placing 

 them in layers in a stone jar with soft paper between and bury the jar in dry 

 soil, below the reach of frost. 



E. Moody, of Lockport, N. Y., gave a description and history of the Mann 

 apple of which he had specimens on exhibition. 



On Wednesday evening Professor Ingersoll, of the State Agricultural Col- 

 lege, gave an interesting and instructive address upon "Orchard Drainage 

 and Cultivation." 



"Landscape Gardening for Farmers" was the subject of the next address 

 by Secretary Garfield. 



The evening session was closed with a report from the committee on nomen- 

 clature. 



On Thursday morning a resolution was offered by Mr. Whitney proposing 

 that the society take steps to make an exhibit at the Chicago exhibition the 

 coming autumn. Referred to the executive board. 



