134 GENERAL HISTORY. 



The afternoon session opened with a resumption of the discussion on in- 

 sects and insecticides. 



" Economy of Mulching" came next under discussion. 



E. H. Scott's favorite mulch was loose, friable soil, made such by cultiva- 

 tion. No champion appeared for mulching proper, and the subject was- 

 passed. 



" Method in Planting Small Places " was the subject of a paper from Ossian 

 C. Simouds, superintendent of Graceland cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, which 

 was followed by Professor W. J. Beal, of Lansing, with some remarks on 

 "Ornamenting Small Places." 



Professor W. W. Tracy continued the same general subject with an address 

 on ''Landscape Gardening for Town and Village Lots," illustrating several 

 of the points by diagrams, etc. 



The final session, on Wednesday evening, owing to the continued rain, wa& 

 but thinly attended. 



A poem was prepared for the occasion by ^Irs. M. P. A. Crozier; subject,. 

 ''House Plants." 



The secretary then read a short essay prepared for this meeting by J. N. 

 Stearns, of Kalamazoo, who was unable to be present, entitled, "Adaptation 

 of Varieties to Soil," in which he gave his experiences and conclusions as to- 

 the soils best adapted to the various classes of fruits. 



The committee on fruits exhibited reported an exceedingly creditable dis- 

 play of strawberries, with several plates of cherries, also peaches upon the 

 branch, a plate of Baldwin apples, the growth of 1882, by N. E. Smith, of 

 Ionia, and nine varieties of apples and a plate of Catawba grapes, the growth 

 of 1882, by H. C. Cain, of Cleveland, Ohio, preserved in his patent refrig- 

 erator. 



The committee on flowers and plants paid a high compliment to the exhibit. 



The closing address of the evening was given by Hon. W. K. Gibson, of 

 Jackson, on "The Coantry of the Amazon," giving some account of its cli- 

 mate, soils, and peoples, but dwelling mainly upon the wonderful variety of 

 its flowers, fruits, and forest growths. 



Upon the close of this address the audience were treated to some excellent 

 music, after which complimentary resolutions were reported and adopted, and 

 the meeting adjourned. 



On September 12th to 14th, 1883, the American Pomological Society held 

 its biennial session at PhiladeliDliia, with Dr. W. J. Beal, C. \Y. Garfield "and 

 T. T. Lyon present as delegates from Michigan. 



The attendance was large, and the exhibit of fruits by the American Po- 

 mological Society, and of both fruits and flowers by the Pennsylvania Horti- 

 cultural Society, were exceedingly large and excellent. 



During the meeting T. T. Lyon, of Michigan, chairman of the committee 

 appointed at the last meeting of the society to prepare a system of rules for 

 naming and exhibiting fruits, reported the following: 



Section I. 



Naming and Describing New Fruits. 



Rule 1, The originator or introducer (in the order named) has the prior right to- 

 bestow a name upon a new or unnamed fruit. 

 Rule 2. The society reserves the right in case of long, inappropriate, or otherwise 



