532 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



THE HILLSDALE AND LENAWEE SOCIETY. 



REPORTED BY THE SECRETARY, MRS. MARY N. ALLEN". 



OFFICERS FOR 1887. 



President — F. G. Church. 

 Secretary — Mary N. Allen. 

 Treasurer — J. W. Allen. 



This society bears the name of the Farmers' Union and Liorticaltural 

 Society. We have held three meetings this year One at Rollin Center, one 

 at Church's Corners, Wheatland, and also one at Addison. These meetings were 

 all well attended and much interest and enthusiasm manifested. The discus- 

 sions and papers that have been brought before the society have covered a 

 wide range of thought, and have been participated in by both gentlemen and 

 ladies. Some of the subjects that have been discussed by the society are 

 these: " What Sheep pay the Farmer Best, Coarse or Fine Wooled," led 

 by R. R. Rogers, Medina; "Poultry Raising," by Mrs. E. M. Brown, Addi- 

 son; ''Winter Care of Flowers and Foliage Plants," by Mrs. Mary N. 

 Allen; "Fruit Culture on the Farm," by Frank R. Smith, of Somerset; 

 "Does Ensilage Pay," by J. 0. Beal, Rollin ; " What should be the Leading 

 Crops of the average Farmer," by Mr. Hart Smith ; "Around the House," by 

 Mrs. Mary N. Allen. Our locality is well adapted to horticultural pursuits. 

 All the varieties indigenous to our climate are cultivated successfully, but 

 for the past few years apples have not done as well, owing to climatic 

 influences. There are some fine peach orchards in this vicinity that do well 

 when mercury does not run too low in winter. A peach orchard on Hills- 

 dale farm owned by J. W. Allen contains twelve hundred trees in a thrifty 

 condition. 



