296 GENERAL HISTORY. 



Article IX.— Membership. 



Any person may become a member of the Society for one year by paying into its treas- 

 ury the sum of one dollar ; and the wife, and resident unmarried daughters of any such> 

 member, may also become members by payment of fifty cents each. 



Article X.— Disposition of Membership Fees. 



The Treasurer shall retain one-half of all membership fees for the use of the Society ; 

 and shall transmit the remaining half to the Secretary of the State Horticultural So- 

 ciety, together with the full address of each person and the sum by which he is repre- 

 sented in such remittance. 



Article XI. — Membership in the State Horticultural Society and Distribution 



OF its Transactions. 



Every person for whom the sum of one dollar shall have been paid into the Treasury 

 and one-half the same remitted as provided in Article X, shall be entitled to a certifi- 

 cate of membership for the current year in the Michigan State Horticultural Society, 

 and also to a copy of the current volume of its transactions as a perquisite of such mem- 

 bership. 



Article XII. — Expiration of Membership. 



All annual memberships, whether in the auxiliary or parent society, shall expire on 

 the thirty-first day of December of the year for which they were issued ; Provided that 

 in case of a failure to elect the officers of the Society for the ensuing year within the life 

 of such memberships they shall continue for that purpose till such election shall hav& 

 occured and till the newly elected officers shall have assumed their offices. 



Article XIII. — Amendments and Additions. 



Amendments may be made to this Constitution and By-Laws, or distinct articles add- 

 ed as provided in Article III, at any regular meeting of the Society, by a vote of two- 

 thirds of all the members present and voting ; but if objection be made, the proposed 

 amendment or addition shall " lie upon the table" until the next regular meeting ; pro- 

 vided that no amendment or addition shall be adopted of a character calculated to, in 

 any way, interfere with the harmonious co-working of the auxUiary with the parent 

 Society. 



HOETICULTUEE IN THE LAKE SHOEE REGION". 



The following from Harrison Hutchins, of Fennville, is so happily con- 

 ceived and so compact in its statements, that it is inserted entire : — 



When white people first came to this sec'ion, about 1835, there was a small 

 peach orchard on " Peach Orchard Point," on the Kalamazoo river, supposed 

 to have been planted by French traders. 



In the spring of 1838 James McCormick settled in the southwest corner 

 of .Manlius township, ilarrisun llutchins settled in Ganges in the fall of the 

 same year. James \V. Wads worth located in Ganges the following winter; 

 also John H. Billings. Levi Loomis also moved into Ganges soon after. 



Mr. Wadsworth planted the first apple orchard about the spring of 1840, 

 partly aniong logs. About the next year McCormick, Loomis, Hutchins and- 

 Billings each planted small apple orchards. 



