SECRETARY'S NOTE. 



For some years I have had in mind the idea of inserting in the annual re- 

 port of the Michigan Horticultural Society abstracts of the proceedings of 

 various American Associations, each devoted to some branch of horticulture. 

 But other special matters have each season come to the front, and seemed to 

 demand time and space to the exclusion of anything of this character, except 

 for the volume of 1885, when the great meeting of the American Pomological 

 Society in our State seemed to demand that its proceedings be given a promi- 

 nence second only to the proceedings of our own Society. This year the meet- 

 ings of several of the American Associations were especially interesting, and I 

 have epitomized the reports of the proceedings for this volume. It was while 

 at this work that the thought was suggested to me of having these societies all 

 arrange their meetings to occur in the same city within the same fortnight; 

 thus enabling horticulturists to become identified with several of them at a 

 minimum expense of time and money. It seems as if this might be brought 

 about without serious difficulty, and afford many advantages that would be 

 heartily appreciated by progressive horticulturists throughout the land. Pend- 

 ing the 'consummation of such an arrangement I present herewith to Michigan 

 horticulturists the cream of the meetings for 1886 of five great associations 

 devoted to horticulture and forestry. 



Secretary. 



