TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING. 59 



On Fruits and Models— Nelson Bogue of Batavia, N. Y.; D. G. 

 Edmiston of Adrian; R. M. Kellogg of Ionia. 



On Plants and Flowers — Chas. W. Garfield of Grand Rapids, Mrs. 

 Stanley Potter of South Haven, Miss Sarah Fletcher of Ann Arbor. 



On resolutions — Prof. L. R. Taft, Agricultural College; R. Morrill, 

 Benton Harbor; J. N. Stearns, Kalamazoo. 



Tuesday Morning Session. 



Upon assembling, Tuesday morning, the society was called to order by 

 Vice-President Garfield, who introduced President Angell of Michigan 

 university. 



Dr. Angell had been placed on the programme for an address in the 

 evening, but was obliged to appear now, or not at all, because of a meeting 

 of college professors and teachers. He extended an invitation to the 

 society to visit the university, although it might not be found a very inter- 

 esting place during vacation. He had once said, at a meeting of the 

 society in Grand Rapids, that he had a right to be there because he had 

 increased his peach crop 100 per cent, that year. It was one peach the year 

 before and two peaches that season; but he was now obliged to say it 

 perished utterly the next year. Horticulture was a matter of great interest 

 to him. He stood last year upon the field of Waterloo and had been deeply 

 interested in following the movements of the armies which there contended, 

 but doubted now if he was more excited and interested than he was in his 

 summer's contest with the insect pests in his garden. He had seldom 

 found a very coarse man interested in horticulture. Such an one may 

 grow a crop of apples for the market, but, as a rule, the man who largely 

 engages in horticulture is of a refined nature. Horticulture seems as 

 much an art as sculpture or painting. Mr. Angell spoke highly of the 

 value to the state of the work of the society, and remarked that the people 

 of the southern part of Michigan must more and more engage in horti- 

 culture as transportation facilities and consumption increase. No society 

 is more deserving of aid and support, because it is promoting an industry 

 that must increasingly supplant wheat-raising. He thanked the society 

 for going to Ann Arbor to foster an already strong local interest. It had 

 seemed to him that the time is coming when the common schools must do 

 something in the way of imparting elementary knowledge of plant life — 

 not as a daily task, perhaps, but by one or two hours' instruction each week 

 by a competent lecturer. The difficulty would be to secure teachers really 

 competent. The Germans do this successfully because they insist upon 



