'M6 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



GKAND KIVER VALLEY nOKTICULTUUAL SOCIETY. 



OFFICERS FOR ISSO. 



President — Wm. Howe, Grand Eapids. 



Vice President — Charles Alford, Lamont. 



Secretary — W. N. Cook, Grand Rapids. 



Treasurer — S. L. Fuller, Grand Rapids. 



Executive Board — Wm. K. Emmons, Wyoming; Reuben H. Smith, Grand 

 Rapids; A. Sharp, Grand Rapids; S. M. Pearsall, Grand Rapids. 



This Society has held its regular monthly meetings on the first Tuesday of 

 each month, which have been fairly attended by its members, always having 

 more or less seasonable fruit on exhibition. 



At the March meeting the subject of pear blight was discussed at some 

 length ; Mr. Geo. W. Dickinson said that he saved his trees after having been 

 attacked by the disease, by boring into the trunks of the trees with an auger, 

 filling up the hole with flowers of sulphur and plugging up the hole with soft 

 wood. His theory is that the sap takes up the sulphur and carries it through- 

 out its entire circulation, thus driving out the virus. 



At the August meeting, Messrs. Wm. Rowe, W. N. Cook, Wm. K. Emmons, 

 and S. M. Pearsall, were appointed a committee to collect fruits and make ex- 

 hibits at the meeting of the American Pomological Society, to be held at 

 Rochester, New York, on the third week in September; also to make exhibits 

 at the State fair at Detroit, same week ; also at Grand Rapids fair of the 

 AV'est Michigan Agricultural and Industrial Society. 



This committee sent fifty-four varieties of apples to Rochester, made up 

 mostly of standard winter sorts. Edward Bradfield, of Ada, was sent as del- 

 egate from our Society, who made a fine display of grapes, mostly from his 

 own vineyard ; for which display of fruits the Society received the award of 

 a Bronze Wilder Medal. 



At the State fair the Society exhibited a fine collection of fruits for dessert 

 and family use ; also a collection for market; also general collection of apples, 

 peaches, pears, and grapes ; also several single plates of apples, peaches, and 

 grapes, entered in name of the grower, with fair success as to premiums. 



At the Grand Rapids fair we exhibited a general collection of fruits; a col- 

 lection of apples ; a collection of pears ; a collection of peaches, and a col- 

 lection of grapes. 



The Society sent delegates to the annual meeting of tlie State Pomological 

 Society at Paw Paw ; also to the quarterly meetings at Lansing and Muskegon ; 

 also to the annual meeting at Allegan, 1879. 



Respectfully submitted. 



\V. N. COOK, Sec'y. 



