STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



RESOLUTIONS. 



Resolved, That iu comiDg to Hart, our hearts have been captured by the hearty 

 welcome we have received from the open-hearted people of Hart and Oceana county, 

 and that our hearty thanks are due, and are hereby given, to all the good people 

 here who have in any way assisted in preparing for this meeting, in providing this 

 room for our sessions, in enlivening our opening with soul-cheering music, iu 

 furnishing us homes during our staj-, and in giving a full local attendance of inter- 

 ested people, such that each session has excelled its predecessors in interest and 

 instruction; and so long as breezes blow and fruits ripen, our heart-beats will echo. 

 "It was good for us to be there." 



C. J. MONROE. 

 ASA W. SLAYTON. 

 CHARLES B. WELCH. 



EXHIBITS. 



Your committee would report that they have examined the exhibits and have 

 found the following: 



Upon the president's table, three varieties of apple, grown by Mr. M. Nelson of 

 Menominee, Mich., consisting of Northwestern Greening. Wealthy, and Pewaukee. 

 Specimens of the first-named varietj' weigh nine and one half ounces, and of the 

 Wealthy, eight and one fourth ounces. All were in excellent condition and free 

 from blemish. Such grand, beautiful fruit, from the upper peninsula, opens 

 another field and adds another laurel to Michigan's fame as a fruit state. 



There were also on exhibition, some fine, thrifty plants of primrose in variety, 

 grown by Mr. E. D. Richmond of Hart. Another bouquet of fresh, fragrant flowers 

 from Mr. Elmer D. Smith of Adrian, arrived at noon. Tbey were yellow tulips, 

 narcissus, carnations and ferns. We all love them— the sweet fragrant heralds 

 from a stiller and more beautiful world. Beautiful flowers and our most beautiful 

 thoughts go hand iu hand, and one fosters the other. 



Samples of field and sweet corn and grasses, shown by Mr. D. L. Garver, were 

 both good and instructive. 



Six samples of commercial fertilizer of the "Horse Shoe" brand were on exhibi- 

 tion. They were neatly put up in bottles. 



The East Ross Basket Co. shows bushel and half-bushel crates, together with 

 baskets. Both baskets and crates are well made and recommend themselves. 



L. B. RICE. 



C. J. CONRATH. 



BENTON GEBHAKT. 



