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INGHAM COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



EEPORT OF SECKETARY STEBBIN"S. 

 OFFICERS FOR 1888. 



Presideiit — Prof. L. H. Bailey. 

 Vice-President — Mrs. S. R. Leete. 

 Secretary — Prof. James Satterlee. 

 Treasurer — R. H. Holmes. 



The Ingham County Horticultural Society was organized in March, 1880, 

 with thirty-eight members. It has continued to exist with pretty uniform 

 interest, with an average membership of twenty-four. The past year it was 

 twenty-two. Eight meetings were held during the year. In June a floral 

 exhibition was held, with prizes for the finest display of wild and cultivated 

 flowers. The meeting was held at the City Hall, and was largely attended. 

 The children were especially interested, and manifested much taste and 

 industry in their collections. The regular meetings are held in the State 

 Pioneers' hall in the fourth story of the Capitol, reached by an elevator. 



It is an unfortunate circumstance that in the summer and autumn months 

 the fruit growers, upon whom we most rely to keep up the interest in the 

 monthly meetings, are so busy that it is difficult for them to attend. This 

 induced us in June to adjourn till October. 



At the State fair the society furnished the fruits necessary to entitle it to 

 a remission of its dues to the State society. Apples in this county seem more 

 and more infected with worms from year to year. A few years since, only 

 trees in the city were much infected, but the country is now getting its share. 

 The farmers, to a large extent, sell their sound apples for shipment, and we 

 poor city folks have to take up with the wormy culls. 



During the year our society has lost one of its most valued members by 

 death, Mrs. D. L. Case. Mrs. Case has been an active worker in the society 

 from its organization, and for three years past vice-president. She was a lady 

 of rare worth, social and moral, and her loss is universally mourned. 



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