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The address of welcome by Mr. C. J. Monroe, already responded to, was one 

 which will be held in grateful remembrance as among the pleasant occur- 

 rences at South Haven. 



The trip on the lake so generously tendered by Captain J. M. Mitchell of the 

 beautiful steamer Iviverside, which gave some of our members a taste of Lake 

 Michigan in one of its moods, with which all travelers on our inland sea are 

 familiar, afforded both pleasure and experience to some of our interior residents. 



The visit to the factory of Mr. A. K. Uolcomb, the South Ilavou basket fac- 

 tory, where the maximum of excellence and the minimuin of cheapness in tlic 

 production of fruit baskets and crates appear to have been achieved, convinces 

 your committee tiiat a great desideratum in regard to fruit packages has here 

 been accomplished in a manner deserving the highest commendation of this 

 society. Mechanical skill is keeping pace with pomological progress, and both 

 are well exemplified in what we liave seen liere. 



The visit to the peach farm of ex-President Dyckmau, who is leading in an 

 important feature of fruit culture, the thinning process, which seems likely to 

 solve the problem of annual productiveness and longevity in fruit trees, has 

 been one of great interest and profit. 



Tlie visit, so far as practical, to the otiier fruit farms and gardens, and the 

 develoi)ment during the discussions of the practices in connection with fruit 

 culture ; the destruction of pests and the preservation of birds ; the arrange- 

 ments for transportation by lake and by rail, and the better security in business 

 transactions with the trade in distant cities ; in fact all the experience attained 

 in the present meeting of the State Pomological Society, show commendable 

 progress in numerous details connected with the l)usine3S, and are proper sub- 

 jects of congratulation. 



Added to all this, for which our pomological friends are chiefly to be thanked, 

 the generous hospitality of the South Haven citizens who have so freely opened 

 their pleasant homes to the various delegates from distant parts of the State, 

 and thereby made this visit an occasion of unlimited enjoyment, and your com- 

 mittee recommend as a very inadequate response the passage of tiie following 

 resolutions : 



liesolved, That the thanks of this Convention of the State Pomological Society be 

 and are hereby tendered to their brother fruit "growers and to the citizens of South 

 Haven, and especially to the committee of reception and arrangements, Messrs. A. G. 

 Gulley, n. .1. Liuderman and Geo. L. Seaver; to the Lake Shore nurseries, to Messrs. 

 Phillips & AVilliams, to Mr. C. .J. Monroe, to Mr. E. M. Cook, to Mr. A. 11. Holcomb, to 

 Captain J. M. Mitchell, and ex-President Dyckman, and to all who have contributed by 

 their essays and speeches to the profit and enjoyment of this Convention by which 

 the .June meeting of 1877 has been rendered so successful as to become ever memora- 

 ble in the aimals of the society. 



liesolve(J, That we congratulate the pomologists of South Haven on the substantial 

 and intelligent progress made in fruit culture in their highly favored locality. 



Iicsolve<1, That the important problem of successful and i)rotitable fruit culture is 

 being well solved in this vicinity, and we commend the careful, intelligent methods 

 pursued liere to fruit growers generally as well calculated to promote the highest in- 

 terests of pomology in tlie State of Michigan. 



Respectfullv submitted. 



HENRY S. CLUBB, 

 J. P. TH03IPS0X. 



Cummittee. 



After the acceptance and adoption of tlie above reports the society adjourned 

 sine die. 



