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each Annual meeting of the State Horticnltural Society, and the annual 

 income from the Lyon fund has been paid over to the Secretary of the 

 State Society. In 1911 the fund was fixed at |7,600.00. Since that 

 time the Life Membership fund has accumulated the sum of $1,120.00. 

 This added to the |7,000.00 gives the Society at the present time a 

 permanent fund of |8,720.00, besides the South Haven real estate. 



J. SATTERLEE. 



MEMORANDUM. 



On December 3, the closing day of the annual meeting at Kalamazoo, 

 a joint meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Lyon Memorial Fund 

 was held with the members of the Executive Board of the State Horti- 

 cultural Society. All members of both boards were present and after 

 an informal discussion of various matters regarding the work of the 

 Society and the amount of annual income to be ex])ected from the Lyon 

 fund it Avas decided to transfer two liundred and fifty dollars of the 

 amount reported in the general fund, to the Life Membership fund. This 

 leaves |370.00 still due the Life Membership fund to be paid over to 

 Treasurer Garfield as soon as that amount is available. 



J. SATTERLEE, 

 Secretary Board of Trustees Lyon Memorial Fund. ' 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON EXHIBITS. 



To the Members of the Micliigati ^tate Horticultural Society: 



Your Committee to whom was referred the exhibit of fruit at this 

 meeting would make the following report 



We found a very fine collection of apples from Newaygo County, con- 

 sisting of forty-two plates and thirty-nine boxes including thirty- 

 eight difl'erent varieties. 



The South Haven Fruit Growers' Exchange exhibits six plates of 

 pears and thirty-one ]>lates of apples. 



J. R. Blake, Hill Top Orchards, Galesburg, Mich., forty-one plates of 

 apples. 



John S. Capper, Grand Junction, one box Jonathan apples. 



J. H. Crane & Son, Fennville, seven plates of apples. 



C. B. Cook, Owosso, nine plates of apj)les. 



Fred Bohnet, Kalamazoo, twenty-seven plates apples. 



E. S. George, Pontiac seven plates apples. 



J. A. Graley, Pontiac, fifteen plates apples; fourteen plates pears. 



Flint Bros., Novi, one plate a]>ples. 



C. A. Bingham, Birmingham, twenty-eight plates apples. 



E. J. VerDuyon, Novi, eleven plates apples. 



Ezra Root, Novi, one plate apples. 



Wm. J. McKinney, Birmingham, two i>lates apples. 



J. R. Coryell, Birmingham, four plates apples. 



Earl Banks, Novi, three plates apples. 



