PROCEEDINGS OF THE WINTER MEETING. 3 



and moved to refer the matter to the committee on resolutions with 

 instructions to report in favor of the bill. It will not educate the horti- 

 culturists, but it will protect beekeepers. He did not believe in educa- 

 ting in that way; would rather have the money the passage of the bill 

 would cost, to disseminate horticultural information; he did not like the 

 tendency to shift all responsibility for public enlightenment upon the leg- 

 islature, but favored this bill for sake of the beekeepers. 



Secretary Reid moved that the committee be requested to report also in 

 favor of the bill to prevent spread of black-knot in plum and cherry trees. 



Mr. Garfield: Has not apple scab done more damage than black-knot? 



A Voice: Yes. 



Mr. Garfield: Then why shall we not legislate upon that? And on 

 the curculio? Where would we end? 



President Lyon: In California, where horticulture is carried on scientifi- 

 cally and with so much thoroughness, all these points are covered by laws. 

 It would be well to do so here; only, as to the apple scab, we do not yet 

 fully know what the remedy may be. If we did, it would be well to cure 

 the evil in that way. 



Mr. Reid's motion was adopted. 



H. Bird, Jr., of Douglas said, as to desirability of laws for such pur- 

 poses, the yellows law, spoken of by Mr. Garfield as needless at South 

 Haven, because every man voluntarily cut out diseased trees, was neces- 

 sary about Douglas and Saugatuck and had to be enforced at cost of 

 considerable effort. 



Tuesday Morning Session. 



The president appointed Messrs. L. B. Rice of Port Huron, E. W. 

 Allis of Adrian, H. Bird, Jr. of Douglas, and C. J. Monroe of South 

 Haven, a committee on resolutions. 



H. Oscar Kelly of St. Louis, read a paper upon 



THE POSSIBILITIES OF SUCCESSFUL. COMMERCIAL HORTICULTURE 



IN GRATIOT COUNTY. 



In this article I shall not attempt an exhaustive discussion of the subject, 

 but shall, if possible, advance a few ideas which I hope will be of some 

 benefit to those who may manifest sufficient interest to give their attention. 

 By the term " horticulture," as applied to that branch of commerce of our 

 peninsular state, we must include the four distinct divisions of pomol- 

 ogy, or that division which pertains to the growing of fruit; floriculture, 

 or that which pertains to the cultivation and care of flowers; gardening, or 



