510 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



FOETICULTURAL REPORTS. 



Transactions of the Illinois Horticultural Society, 1886. • 



New Jersey State [iorticultural Society, 1886. 



Western N. Y Horticultural Society, 1886. 



Monts^omery Co., Ohio, Horticultural Reports, 1886. 



Mianesota State Horticultural Society, 1886. 



Iowa State Horricultural Society, 1886. 



Missouri State Horticultural Society, 1886. 



Ohio State Horticultural Society, 1886. 



Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, 1887. 



AGRICULTURAL REPORTS. 



New York Agricultural Ex. Station, 1886. 

 Kansas State Board of Agriculture, ]885 and 1886. 

 Pennsylvania State Board of Agriculture, 1886. 

 Connecticut State Board of Agriculture, 1886. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Census of Michigan, 1884. 

 Kansas State Crop Reports, 1887. 



Received in June, 1887, 469 volumes of miscellaneous books from President 

 T. T. Lyon. These books were the private library of President Lyon, and 

 as such were donated to the Society. 



Very respectfully, 



T. H. FORSTER, Librarian. 

 The report was accepted and adopted. 



The chair next called for the 



secretary's ANifUAL STATEMENT. 



Members of the Michigan Horticultural Society : 



It is not with the idea of reaching over upon the ground of any other 

 officer that I am constrained again this year to write out a more full state- 

 ment than usual; but because 1 feel that there are some matters of histori- 

 cal interest that my associates may not touch upon. 



OUR REGULAR MEETINGS. 



The winter meeting convened at Hillsdale, and if we measure the success of 

 a convention by the numbers in attondence from the immediate locality this 

 meeting was a lamentable failure; but if cur unit of measurement lies in the 

 character of the papers presented it was a pronounced success. The report 

 of that meeting will be to the readers of our volume for this year who could 

 not be in attendance, a rich treat. There is no waste in it, and my only 

 regret is that it was not productive of the enthusiasm in Hillsdale county 

 that it merited. Owing practically to ray own disability and other causes, 

 perhaps it is needless to mention, we held no summer meeting save a meeting 



