66 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



Special interest was manifested in the matter of inspection of orchards 

 and nurseries, and the papers on this subject by Messrs. Hedrick and 

 Fifield. The latter presented the bill which the American Nurserymen's 

 association is endeavoring to secure from congress, and a resolution en- 

 dorsing it was passed, and the secretary instructed to forward a copy to 

 each Michigan member of congress. 



Prof. W. W. Tracy gave notice of a motion to amend the constitution. 

 in regard to the election of officers, to be presented at the next annual 

 meeting. 



Ex-Prest. Lyon sent a copy of his important work, a catalogue of Amer- 

 ican fruits, prepared for the American Pomological society and issued as a 

 bulletin of the national department of agriculture. This was referred to a 

 committee which made the subjoined and unanimously adopted report: 



The committee to whom was referred the Catalogue of Fruits prepared 

 by our honorary president, Hon. T. T. Lyon, and published by the national 

 department of agriculture, note some improvement in this report over any 

 preceding one, particularly in that the fruits are classified in fifteen divi- 

 sions, so as to include areas of similar climatic and soil conditions, instead 

 of by states as has been the case in previous reports. A second improve- 

 ment is the result of a careful and wise revision of the nomenclature, the 

 dropping out of superfluous words, etc. We are impressed first with the 

 great amount of painstaking care that has been given to the work, and 

 with the accuracy and extent of the information it contains, and the con- 

 densed and available form in which it is presented. Every fruitgrower 

 should secure a copy of the Catalogue. We owe a debt of gratitude to 

 Prest. Lyon for this labor of love for our benefit. 



WiT.T. W. Tracy, 



L. E. Taft, 



M. B. Watte. 



RESOLUTIONS. 



We recommend a vote of thanks to the Gratiot County Ilorticultiual 

 society and the committee for the hospitable manner in which we wer(3- 

 entertained, and for the commodious hall furnished for our meetings, and 

 especially to the young men, Frank Cowdery, Ashley and Bradley Stone, 

 who furnished such admirable music. We thank the village officers for the 

 courtesies of the village, and the press for attention and full reports. 



We congratulate the society upon the satisfactory working of the new 

 nursery inspection law, as evidenced by the report of the inspector, Piof. 

 Hedrick, and recommend its strict enforcement. 



E. D. Graham, 



C. F. Hale. 



