REPORTS OF AUXILIARY SOCIETIES, 



It is a very serious business to' maintain a thrifty, active local Horticult- 

 ural Society, and our State Society is using every possible method to aid 

 the Societies of Michigan to keep up their membership and hold regular 

 meetings. These Societies seem to have ebbs and flows of interest. 



It is utterly impracticable for these Societies to constantly bring out new 



thoughts and addresses ; and the discussions must necessarily go over 



ground well covered previously; hence there may be, in most instances, but 



little for local Societies to report; still it is important that some brief 



record be made in each year's volume of the work of all these Societies, 



and it would be a great satisfaction to the compiler if these reports could 



be sent in promptly about the time of the annual meeting of the State 



Society. I count it a real misfortune not to be able to place a record of 



each Society of our thirty Auxiliaries in these pages. 



Seceetaby. 



