10 EEPORT OF THE SECEETAET OF THE 



THE APRIL MEETING. 



The first display of fruit made at a meeting of this Society 

 was on Tuesday, April 5. Presideut Saunders brought in a 

 basket of beautiful fruit, among others very fine and rich 

 specimens of the Eusset, and large, bright-looking Baldwins. 

 Mr. Holt of Cascade offered fine samples of the Swaar and 

 Peck's Pleasant. Mr. Houghtaling of Grand Rapids town 

 exhibited large, healthy, brown-looking Baldwins, and a fevr 

 genuine Roxbury Eussets. Mr. Erastus Hall of Grand 

 Rapids sent in a basket of bright, red-looking Baldwins. Mr. 

 J. H. Ford of Paris brought a basket of brotherly-looking 

 Jonathans and some hardy English Eussets. Rev. H. E. 

 • Waring of Grand Rapids town sent specimens of the Bald- 

 win, Roxbury Russet, and Tallman Sweeting. Mr. Noah P. 

 Husted of Lowell presented a basket of splendid Wageners, 

 attractive to the eye and delicious to the taste. 



THE IMPOETANCE OF THE SOCIETY — THE STATE OUGHT TO 



AID IT. 



At the afternoon session, a letter addressed to the Treasurer, 

 from Mr. George Parmelee of Grand Traverse county, wae 

 read : 



Old Mission, Mich., March 28, 1870. 



Dear Sir : — From a notice in the Western Rural of March 10, 1 learn 

 that a State Pomological Society has been organized at Grand Rapids, 

 and not knowing the postoffice address of the President, I send a line to 

 you as a resident of the city, and likely to be present at the next meet- 

 in 'i;. But for the bad traveling just as our sleighing is leaving us, I 

 would be present at the meeting on the first Tuesday in April. 



If the first "articles of association," copied in the notice referred to, 

 set forth mainly the objects of the Society, I will, if this reaches you in 

 season and meets your views, ask you to suggest to the Society at its next 

 meeting, the propriety of including among its objects the taking of 

 measures to secure the aid of the State, more effectually than is now 

 given, to the interests of Pomology. While we feel, and take pleasure 

 in acknowledging, that the State has, through its Board of A.griculture 

 done, and well done, much in the interests of knowledge in several 

 branches, it must be apparent to all who understand the resources of the 



