22 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Our present system of crop reports— Is it adequate to the needs of fruit culture? If 

 not, what further is needful ? 



11:00 o'clock. Sprayino with Arsenites. 



Results of practical tests the past season, on the codling moth. 

 How and to what extent is the curculio affected? 

 Other beneficial results. 



Tuesday Afternoon. 



1:00 o'clock. Pedigree in Plants and Fruits. 



In what does it consist, and to what extent and under what circumstances may its- 

 beneficial influences be relied on ? 



The Season of 1888— Results and lessons. 



Forestry. 



Management of artificial plantations. 



"Wind breaks. 



Needed legislation. 



Uses of very young timber. 



Wasteful methods of lumbermen. 



Prunus Americana — The indigenous plum of Michigan and the north generally. 



Its variability, in the wild state, indicates the practicability of its improvement under 

 a course of treatment tending to that end. 



Improvement by selection: Its results, so far, in the more western states. 



Failure of Prunus Chicasa to fruit freely at the north. 



Comparative exemption of native sorts from premature loss of foliage, rotting of the 

 fruit, and the attacks of curculio. 



Their extreme hardiness and productiveness. '" 



Tuesday Evening. 



8:00 o'clock. Lecture by Prof. W. J. Beal of Michigan Agricultural College, on 

 The Horticultural Possibilities of Northern Michigan, with references to this year's 

 results at the experiment station. 



Wild Rice {Zizania aquatica). — Its susceptibility to improvement under artificial 

 treatment. 



The overflowed lands along many of our lakes and rivers: The practicability of their 

 economical and profitable improvement and cultivation under this as a crop. 



Wednesday Morning. 



9:00 o'clock. Reports of ofiicers. 

 Reports of committees. 

 Election of officers. 

 Miscellaneous business. 



The attendance was excellent, except in a local way, several other associa- 

 tious being in session in the city at the same time; but, especially during the 

 Sfccond day, no fault could reasonably be found on this score. 



President Lyon called to order and read, as follows, his annual message: 



PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL MESSAGE. 



To the Michi'jayi State Horticultural Society in annual meeting assembled: 



The present seems an appropriate time for the review of the past, espe- 

 cially of the doings of the past year, and for the devising of plans for the 

 future, while several events occurring since our last annual assemblage render 

 this more then usually proper, if not in fact necessary. 



