62 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Blenheim Pippin, one X. Y. Vandevere, one Green Sweet, and one Vandevere 

 Pippin. 



Mr. H. F. Thomas, of Jackson, put on the tables three plates of Baldwin, 

 one Wagener, one Khode Island Greening, one Peck's Pleasant, one Belmont, 

 one Eed Canada, one Mann ajiple, one King, two Hubbardston Konsuch, one 

 Oakland County Seek-no-fnrther, one Twenty Ounce apple, one Esopus Spit- 

 zenburg, one Korthern Spy, and one Gloria Mundi. 



Mr. II. W. Poney, of Jackson county, exhibits two plates Baldwin, one 

 ^lann apple, one Khode Island Greening, one Ben. Davis, one Northern Spy, 

 two King, one Hubbardston Nonsuch, one Hubbardston Pippin, two lied Can- 

 ada, one Swaar, one Oakland County Seek-no-further, one Golden Busset, one 

 Koxbuiy Busset, one English Busset, one AVagener, one Yellow Bellflower, one 

 Peck's Pleasant. This collection, Mr. Honey informs the committee, was 

 furnished by Jefferson and Henry Daniells, John B. Pool, "Walter Higgins, and 

 from his own orchard. 



We find four cans of preserved fruits which are very fine indeed, and are 

 the property of Mrs. M. B. Tracy, of Old Mission, by whom they were sent up; 

 one can of Philadelphia raspberries, one can Crawford peaches, one can Bart- 

 lett pears, and one can of cherries. 



This, Mr. President, completes the list, and your committee has under some 

 difficulties endeavored to do justice to all parties. The exliibition proves be- 

 yond a doubt that the winter apple is the great fruit of the State, and that the 

 best varieties of the winter apple can here be grown in all their beauty and 

 symmetry, of good size, and of perfect texture, as well as of the most brilliant 

 color. 



Signed by the Committee. 



N. CHILSOK", 



C. N. MEBKIMAN, 



S. B. MANN, 



H. C. SHERWOOD, 



J. P. THOMPSON. 



Following the acceptance and adoption of this report President Lyon read 

 an able address upon 



THE LABORS AND NEEDS OF THE SOCIETY. 



The causes that conspired to elevate the extended ranges of mountains 

 which limit and give direction to our prevailing winds; and which, while open- 

 ing the broad basin of the Mississippi for their free passage, have interposed 

 the broad unfrozen area of Lake Michigan, to moderate alike the torrid heats 

 of summer and arctic frosts of winter, lie hidden far down among the unwrit- 

 ten records of a remote geology; unwritten by the pen of the historian; but it 

 is this wonderful, and, to us, fortunate concurrence of apparently independent 

 circnmstancGS that constitutes our state what, to-day, it is acknowledged to 

 be, the leading fruit-growing state of the northwest, and which gives to the 

 motto upon our state escutcheon a forc3 and a[)prapriatenes3 perhaps un thought 

 of by those to whom wo owe its adoption. Tlie development and elucidation 

 of this branch of our subject, however, is cominitt9d to wiser and abler hands, 

 and we therefore invite attention to matters of quite another character. 



Even as early as the seventeenth and eii:^ht33nth cinturies, fruit trees were 

 planted along our eastern borders by the French, many of which yet remain 

 to demonstrate the adaptability of our state to the culture of fruit. These 



