294 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



WASHTENAW COUNTY POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



REPORTED BY SECRETARY GANZHORST. 



OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR 1887. 



President — J. Austin Scott. 



Vice-Presidents — J. D. Baldwin, J. J. Parshall and Wm. McCreery. 



Secretary — Jacob Ganzhorn. 



Corresponding Secretary — E. Baur. 



'treasurer — John Almand. 



Executive Committee — E. H. Scott, J. H. Clough, C. E. Wiard, W. F. Bird. 



Botanist — Prof. Yolney N. Spalding. 



Climatologist — Prof. Mark W. Harrington. 



Hyyienist — Prof. A. B. Prescott. 



Entomologist and Ornithologist — Prof. J. B. Steere. 



The society keeps up monthly meetings, some of which are largely attended. 

 The topics for discussion are timely for the needs of the progressive fruit- 

 growers, and a large portion of the time is devoted to business meetings relative 

 to transportation, fruit packages, etc., etc. Standing committees on these 

 branches are maintained. 



The meetings for the season were opened in February, when an address on 

 the potato and grape rot was given by the society's botanist, Prof. Spalding, of 

 Michigan University. Both subjects were illustrated by charts. The professor 

 believed that preventive was better than cure and thinks that the future attack 

 of the grape rot can largely be prevented by the burning of the leaves in 

 autumn as they fall from the vines. 



Prof. Spalding had designed to furnish a paper on the above subject for 

 this report, but has not as yet found the necessary time from his University 

 duties; but he expects to write a paper in the near future and when new devel- 

 opments now under his investigation will enable him to give more light on 

 this dreaded disease. He also informs me that Prof. Scribner has prepared a 

 paper on the grape rot which contains all there is known about the disease up 

 to the present time. 



The meetings during the entire season were largely devoted to the grape and 

 the grape rot. 



Considerable time was given to the depredations of insects. A committee * 

 was appointed to assist our entomologist, Prof. Steere, to present to these 

 meetings from time to time the best means for fighting the obnoxious insects. 

 The professor kindly furnished me with a paper on this important subject, 

 read before the society at a spring meeting, which supplements this report. 



