MICHIGAX STATE POMOLOGIOAL SOCIETY. i'^O 



OCTOBER MEETING. 



■ An invitation having been extended to the Society by the 

 citizens of Spring Lake and vicinity, to hold its October 

 meeting at Horticultural Hall, Spring Lake, a special car 

 was furnished and half-fare granted the members from Grand 

 Rapids for the trip, by Superintendent Bell, of the Detroit & 

 Milwaukee Railroad. 



A delegation met the excursionists at the Spring Lake 

 depot, and, after escorting them throngh the substantial 

 attractions of their magnificent hotel, conducted them to 

 Horticultural Hall, a spacious room provided and used, as its 

 name implies, solely for gatherings of this kind,— a hall of 

 which the citizens have reason to be proud, but which is only 

 representative of the strong interest and earnest enterprise 

 evinced by the whole-souled inhabitants of this section in 

 everything pertaining to Horticulture. 



The President called the meeting to order, and delivered an 

 address, in which allusion was made to the origin and career 

 of the Society; to the great success which had attended its 

 efforts to promote the interests of Pomology throughout the 

 State; to the grand success of the last annual fair; to the 

 size, pleasantness, beauty, and adaptability of " Pomological 

 Hall" as compared with any other building of its kind in the 

 West, if not in the United States; to the pertinacity of the 

 Secretary in urging and working at the plan of exchanging 

 our fruits for those of other States, and also with the Ameri- 

 can Pomological Society at Richmond, Va.; of his fear of its 

 practicability at the time; of its final success; and of his 

 desire to see the plan carried into operation to its utmost 

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