186 GENERAL HISTORY. 



Society, at Graud Rapids, Michigan, been for the twentieth time elected its 

 jDresident, died at his home in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in the eighty-ninth 

 year of his age. 



His death loaves a vacancy Trhich can hardly be fully filled. Few men, pos- 

 sessed of the eminent qualifications for the position which, as a horticulturist, 

 he so long and so efficiently filled, are likely to be willing to devote to it the 

 time, the thought and the pecuniary aid which, with an open hand he be- 

 stowed ujion this, the special offspring of his paternal efforts, for the future 

 prosperity of which he has indicated his anxiety by a bequest to remain s a 

 permanent memento of his care for it while living. 



Its friends can hardly fail to await with anxiety the course to be marked 

 out for it in the future, which may, doubtless, be indicated during its next 

 session, to occur at Boston, in September, 1887. 



DEDUCTIONS FROM THE STATE CENSUS OF 1884. 



The State census of 1884 gives the following totals of horticultural planta- 

 tions and their products for the entire State: 



Apple orchards 312,716 acres, 9,245,419 bearing trees, yielding 4,092,806 bushels in 

 1883. 



Peach orchards 24,502['acres, 1,428,209 bearing trees, yielding 290,091 bushels in 1883, 



Total value of orchard pi'oducts sold and consumed in 1883, $2,671,161. 



Vineyards 3,228 acres ; grapes sold in 1883, 1,550,702 pounds ; wine made in 1883, 

 24,6S5 gallons. 



Nurseries 862 acres ; value of products sold in 1883, $134,027. 



Market garden products sold in 1883, $572,216. Estimating the grapes at 3 cents per 

 pound and the wine at 50 cents per gallon the value of the vineyard products will be 

 $58,863.56, and the total of the horticultural products enumerated in the census will be 

 $3,430,267.56. 



This only includes fruits in orchard and vineyard and market garden pro- 

 ducts. If to these we add the large small fruit product of 'the State, with 

 the fruit of various kinds not in orchards or vineyards, and the products of 

 farm and village private gardens the estimate will doubtless considerably 

 exceed the sum of $5,000,000, at which certain estimates have heretofore 

 placed it. 



LAWS OF MICHIGAN PERTAINING TO HORTICULTURE. 



The following comjjilation of the laws of this State bearing upon horticult- 

 ural subjects was prepared by Secretary C- W. Garfield, of the State Horti- 

 cultural Society, for the report of 1885, and is inserted here for convenience 

 of reference: 



The laws of Michigan which have a direct bearing upon horticulture and 

 forestry are not numerous, but scattered here and there through the statutes, 

 there are provisions that are of considerable interest in this connection. Our 

 agricultural college was the first one established in this country, and ever since 

 a sufficient clearing was made upon the college farm for the purpose, gardens 

 and orchards have been given a good deal of attention. The college has been 

 liberally supported by the State, and the horticulttiral department has received 

 its full share. Aside from regular legislative appropriations of money to the 



