224 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



A prolonged discussion upon symptoms and treatment of tlie yellows, occu- 

 pied the rest of tiio forenoon, but nothing new, beyond what has been repeat- 

 edly printed in these columns, was brought out. There were some present, 

 unacquainted with the disease, who received a good description of it. 



Mr. Katcliff made a general statement of the work of the Indiana State 

 Horticultural Societ}', showing an incouraging state of progress and express- 

 ing sanguine hopes for future work. The society holds its ninth annual meet- 

 ing at Dublin, Indiana, December IG, 17, and 18, this year. 



Afternoon Session, 



The committee appointed to consider the recommendations of President 

 Lyon, made in his address, submitted the following report: 



The committee recommend that the present plan of the fruit catalogue be 

 continued, and that we especially commend the feature of naming and grad- 

 ing the varieties of fruit grown in the State. 



We recommend that the future issues of the fruit catalogue, in j^amphlet 

 form, be of a sufficient number to meet the -wants of those who are willing to 

 l^ay the cost of printing. 



We recommend that the matter of the annual exhibition in connection with 

 the State Agricultural Society be referred to the executive committee. 



We recommend the acceptance of C. R. Coryell's invitation to hold the 

 February meeting at Hillsdale. 



We recommend that the executive committee take special pains to institute 

 some plan to unite the band of sympathy between the State and local societies. 



That the executive committee endeavor to increase the annual membership 

 by some system of prizes offered in that direction as to them shall seem best. 



That the society ask the legislature to place the annual reports of this society 

 at the disposal of the society in such a way that they may be used for the 

 financial benefit of the association. 



We recommend that a rule or by-law be added to our present by-laws, mak- 

 ing the absence of any member of the executive board for more than two of 

 its meetings in succession, without reasonable excuse, a sufficient cause for 

 declaring the office vacant. 



OHAS. W. GARFIELD, 

 BYRON MARKHAM, 

 S. B. MANN, 



Committee, 



The President announced the next topic as 



HOETICULTURAL LITERATURE, 



upon which Mr. F, A. Gulley, of the Agricultural College said : 



There has been in the past, in the minds of a large portion of the country 

 people, a strong prejudice against what they called " book farming," not only 

 as applied to regular farming, but also to horticulture, and especially that 

 branch which embraces fruits and vegetables. They believed that what 

 they termed ''practical experience " was the only true guide. What had been 

 handed down from their ancestors, and what was practiced by themselves and 

 neighbors, in the growing of different plants embraced all that was worth 



