REPORT OF THE SOUTH HAVEN POMOLOGICAL SOCEETY. 



OFFICERS FOR 1811. 



President — Normau Phillips, South Haven, Michigan. 

 Vice-President — C. H. Wigglesworth, Soutli Ilaveu. 

 Secretary — C. T. Bryant, South Haven. 

 Treasurer — C. J. Miinro, South Haven. 

 Executive Committee — I. S. Linderman, John Williams, H. 

 E. Bid well, J. Lannin. 



South Haven, Mich., Dec, 1871. 

 Mr. A. T. Linderman, See'y Mich. State Pomological So. : 



Dear Sir, — In compliance with yonr favor, asking us to 

 contribute items or thoughts in regard to fruit-growing in this 

 section, to be embodied in your " Annual Eeport," our Society 

 appointed Messrs. 0. C. Lathrop, H. E. Bidwell, A. S. Dyckman, 

 and the undersigned, to pr.-pare a report. 



The statements of these gentlemen, on the several topics, I 

 transmit herewith : 



By way of introduction, it falls to me, to write briefly of our 

 organization, and its work. Convinced that our superior 

 advantages, of climate and soil, for growing fruit, and facilities 

 for shipping to the best markets, indicated that fruit culture 

 was to be the principal business of this community, and justi- 

 fied us in striving for the highest attainments, and in expecting 

 the greatest possible succes:^ and profit, in this branch of agri- 

 culture, as a reward for w^'ll directed effort, those interested, 

 in December, 1870, organized the South Haven Pomological 

 Society ; the specific object of which, is, " to develop facts. 



