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10. To bring all the collections together, either in this State or at Boston, 

 and " weed out" all unnecessary duplicates and all unworthy varieties or 

 specimens before the final exhibit. 



11. Learn from Secretary Manning l;ow much space will be assigned to us, 

 with its position and surroundings, and devise some adequate plan to arrange 

 and ornament it as effectively as possible. 



12. As far as can conveniently be done, allow localities, societies, and oven 

 individuals to associate their names with their exhibits. 



13. As far as practicable at so remote a point employ any or all the horticult- 

 ural products of the State (other than pomological), as means of increasing 

 the attractiveness of the exhibit. 



14. Since the State Horticultural Society, through its members, friends, and 

 sympathizers, will doubtless be expected to do a large share of the volunteer 

 labor of collecting, as well as to furnish the fruits and other contributions, it 

 may very properly be accredited as the exhibitor for the State. If so, it 

 should be invited to do what it reasonably can to aid the undertaking, and to 

 contribute the use of its plates, clasps, and other fixtures for the exhibition. 



15. Choose a finance committee of one or more persons, whose duty it shall 

 be (under such instructions and limitations as the Governor shall deem it 

 needful to impose), to advise, and where needful, limit expenditures ; also to 

 approve the vouchers therefor preparatory to their payment by the Secretary 

 or on his warrant. 



IG. Take measures to learn whether part or the whole of the appropriation 

 will be placed at the control of the commission, or the expenses paid bj the 

 State as they accrue and are audited, or whether the whole will be required to 

 accrue and be audited and paid by the State as a single item. 



17. Kailroad passes to commissioners, reduced freight and express charges, 

 as well as the privilege of paying such charges at the end of the route and as 

 a whole, would immensely diminish the difficulty and expense of making the 

 collections. Will the Governor take measures to secure to the commission if 

 practicable, any or all these advantages? 



Mr. Lyon also furnished some estimates of the way in which the appropria- 

 tion made by the legislature should be used. 



The following is an epitome of tlie proceedings at this meeting: 



H. Dale Adams, Chairman of the General Fruit Committee of the Ameri- 

 can Pomological Society for Michigan, was invited to act with the commission 

 as far as it seemed practicable. The State was districted and assigned to the 

 commissioners as follows : 



Prof. W. J. Beal, Northeastern Michigan ; Evart H. Scott, Southeastern 

 Michigan ; T. T. Lyon, Southwestern Michigan ; J. G. Ramsdell, North- 

 western Michigan ; W. K. Gibson, assisted by H. Dale Adams, Central Michi- 

 gan. 



Fruit and other material collected, except that of the most perishable na- 

 ture, was directed to be sent to Lansing, to be assorted and re-packed under 

 the direction of Mr. Lyon. 



The President was authorized to issue circulars giving directions for collect- 

 ing and forwarding fruit. 



Mr. Gibson was given the duty of looking after reduced rates of transport- 

 ation. 



Secretary Garfield was requested to compile and publish a pamphlet on 

 Michigan horticulture, for distribution at Boston. 



The State Horticultural Society was asked for the loan of plates and clasps, 



