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the secretary being instructed to cast a ballot for him, though this was 

 known to be contrary to his wishes. In like manner, Secretary Reid was 

 elected, the casting of the ballot being done by Vice-President Monroe. 

 A similar compliment was paid Mr. Asa W. Slay ton, treasurer. The 

 matter of choosing two members of the executive board was referred to 

 a committee, consisting of Ex-President Lyon and Mr. J. F. Taylor. Upon 

 receipt of their report, the secretary was instructed to cast the ballot of 

 the society for the re-election of Messrs. F. J. Russell of Hart and R. D. 

 Graham of Grand Rapids, as members of the executive board. At a 

 session of the board the next day, Mr. R. M. Kellogg of Three Rivers was 

 elected a member in place of Mr. Elmer D. Smith of Adrian. 



It was expected that the West Michigan Fruitgrowers' society would 

 hold an election of officers at this time, but Secretary Kellogg announced 

 that the matter had been postponed until some possible future meeting. 



The usual committees were appointed Wednesday morning, as follows: 



Resolutions— W. W. Tracy of Detroit, J. F. Taylor of Douglas, W. W. 

 Rork of Agnew. 



Exhibits — Prof. L. R. Taft of the Agricultural college, Mr. J. J. Har- 

 rison of Painesville, Ohio, Prof. John Craig of Ottawa, Canada. 



To these were added the committee on legislation, consisting of Messrs. 

 R. D. Graham of Grand Rapids, C. J. Monroe of South Haven, and Edwy 

 C. Reid of Allegan. These are to concern themselves with all proposed 

 legislation relating to horticultural interests, and especially such as will 

 secure active repression of diseases, predatoi'y insects, and the importa- 

 tion of unsound nursery stock into the state. 



A pleasant feature of the meeting was the presence of a number of 

 the florists of Grand Rapids, two of whom furnished valuable papers. 

 These were Mr. N. B. Stover and Mr. Henry Smith. Another innovation 

 was use of a stereopticou. This Avas employed at the session Tuesday 

 evening to show the portraits of Mr. S. L. Fuller, the first president of 

 the society, and Mr. T. T. Lyon, the honorary president, and who is justly 

 revered as the society's patriarch. These had been referred to in Mr. 

 Garfield's opening address of welcome, who paid a deserved tribute to 

 their services in establishing the society. In turn, Vice-Pres't Monroe, 

 in reply to Mr. Garfield's address, told of the valuable work performed 

 by that gentleman during the number of years he was secretary of the 

 society. Mr. Garfield's portrait was shown, evoking, as did the others, 

 very hearty applause. The instrument was also used that evening in 

 illustrating the brief address of Prof. Craig on the "Fruit resources of 

 Canada." Mr. Craig exhibited a number of views of Canadian fruit, 

 orchards, and portions of the experimental farm at Ottawa. These, with 

 the papers by the florists, made up an evening of unusual enjoyment. 

 Wednesday evening the stereopticon was again brought into use to 

 illustrate Prof. Slingerland's lecture, "Recent work among our insect 

 enemies," and Mr. Morrill's ''Pruning of peach trees." 



There v.as a lively episode when Mr. Lyon brought up the matter of the 

 society's action with relation to the proper person for appointment as 

 secretary of agriculture in the cabinet of President-elect McKinley. Mr. 

 Lyon stated that much anxiety was felt among the horticulturists of 

 the country because of fear that the person selected might be simply a 

 specialist of some kind and one not broad enough in his knowledge to 



