62 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The following books have been received through exchanges during the 

 year: 



HORTICULTURAL REPORTS. 



New Jersey State Horticultural Society, 1887. 



Illinois State Horticultural Society, 1887. 



Western New York Horticultural Society, 1887. 



Missouri State Horticultural Society, 1887. 



Minnesota State Horticultural Society, 1887. 



Maine State Horticultural Society, 1887. 



Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 1887. 



Iowa State Horticultural Society, 1887. 



California State Llorticnltural Society, 1887. 



Ohio State Horticultural Society, 1887. 



AGRICULTURAL REPORTS. 



Pennsylvania State Board of Agriculture, 1887. 

 Connecticut State Board of Agriculture, 1887. 

 Maine State Board of Agriculture, 1887. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Kansas State Crop Reports, 1888. 



Very respectfully, 



T. H. FoRSTER, Librarian. 



Wednesday Morning Session. 



Opening the last session of the December meeting. President Lyon reported, 

 from the committee on revisic n of the catalogue of fruits, that he had made 

 progress with the work, though only one of the other members hatl made 

 any report to him, nor had he anything to submit as to new fruits, but would 

 shortly furnish both to the secretary. 



The following report of the committee on the president's message was read 

 by Mr. C. J. Monroe and adopted : 



Mr. President and Members of the State Horticultural Society: 



Your committee appointed to consider the various suggestions and recom- 

 mendations of the president's address, respectfully report as follows: 



1. That the portion of the address relating to the segregation of the society 

 into divisions, for the purpose of considering; topics most in accord with the 

 tastes of the several divisions; also the portion relating to outdoor meetings, 

 be referred to the executive board. 



I? 2. That the portion referring to the importance of gathering more full and 

 complete fruit statistics be referred to the committee on legislation. 



3. That the suggestions relative to experiments in horticulture and pomol- 

 ogy on the west shore, with the tenderer sorts of fruits and vegetables, under 

 the auspices of the state experiment station, be referred to a special committee 



