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pears and three hundred plums. The severe winters have almost entirely 

 destroyed the peach trees, although Porter Beal, of Kollin, has an orchard 

 among the numerous little lakes of that part of the county which yields a 

 good crop of peaches and plums almost every year. 



In 187 L George Hall, of Deerfield, in the eastern part of this county, sold 

 from eight acres of bearing orchard eighty barrels of fall apples, at ten shill- 

 ings per barrel, and five hundred and fifty-six barrels of winter fruit, for 

 which he received $1,245, the net proceeds being $1,150. The orchard was 

 fourteen years old, consisting mostly of Baldwins and Yellow Bolflowers. 



The State report gives the value of the orchard products of the county for 

 the year 1870 as 1363,828, and the market garden products as $35,195. 



In 1874 the orchard committee of the State Pomological Society notice 

 the cold grapery and grounds of A. Sigler, of Adrian, as follows: "He has 

 constructed a cheap grapery on the rear of his city lot, with glass on two 

 sides, and a lean-to roof, with so little outlay of cash as to surprise most 

 persons. Here we found growing Black Hamburgh, Rose Chasselas, White 

 Chasselas, White Muscat of Alexandria, White Tokay, Bo wood Muscat, and 

 many other varieties — about thirty in all. This grapery demonstrates the 

 fact that any one with a little knowledge of grape culture, or with the dispo- 

 sition to acquire it, and with a little means and time can have a cold grapery 

 and fine grapes. 



" Every foot of ground on Mr. Sigler's lot is made to produce fruit of some 

 sort. He has several varieties of pears, and Early Purple, Black Tartarian 

 and Black Eagle cherries." 



In 1877 this committee speak of the plum orchard of Porter Beal, of Rolling, 

 as being on elevated land, exposed to westerly winds, and yielding profitable 

 returns. The trees were budded on peach stocks. 



The Lenawee County Agricultural Society was organized on January 27th,. 

 1849. 



The Adrian Horticultural Society was organized as early as 1842. There 

 was also an Adrian Horticultural Society organized on March 21st, 1851. 

 Whether the latter was a mere reorganization of the former, or whether the 

 former had become defunct, leaving room for a new and distinct organization, 

 seems uncertain. 



Its report for 1878 states that at that time its library consisted of over twa^ 

 hundred volumes, and that it was in receipt of eight of the leading agricult- 

 ural and horticultural periodicals of the day. It became auxiliary to the 

 State Horticultural Society January 19th, 1881. 



The State Agricultural Society held its seventeenth and eighteenth annual 

 fairs at Adrian, in September of the years 1865 and 1866. 

 • On February 28r,h, 1882, the State Horticultural Society held its winter 

 meeting at Hudson, in western Lenawee, with a full attendance and a good 

 degree of interest. 



During the month of April following, the Lenawee and Hillsdale Horti- 

 cultural Society WiS organized, with headquarters at Hudson, and constituted 

 an auxiliary to the State Horticultural Society. 



A village horticultural society was in existence at Tecumseh in 1852, but 

 there is no subsequent account of its transactions, hence it is believed to have 

 soon become extinct. 



At a meeting of the State Pomological Society held at Hillsdale, B. W. 

 Steere, S. B. Mann, and D. G. Edmiston were appointed to learn the history 



