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adopted by tliis society, its committees shall be required to govern their action 

 thereb}'; and that it be the special dutj^ of the committee on native fruits to i-eport 

 any departure from such rules, in the nomenclature of native fruits, that shall come 

 to their knowledge, in order that the society may be enabled to conform its own 

 practice to the same. 



Besolved, That measures be taken to give to the rules so adopted a wide publicity, 

 accompanying the same with the suggestion to all societies and individuals, in charge 

 of exhibitions of fruits, that they be embodied in the premium lists, and in the rules 

 governing their exhibitions and awards. 



Besolved, That in pursuance of such purpose, it be made the duty of the President 

 of this society, at the opening of each biennial session, to appoint a committee on 

 nomenclature, whose duty it shall be to supervise the nomenclature of fruits j)laced 

 upon its tables for exliibition, and to correct the same whenever needful. 



The committee appointed to fulfill the requirements of the resolutions con- 

 sisted of T. T. Lyon, of Michigan, J. A. Warder, of Ohio, J. J. Thomas, of 

 New York, C. M. Hovey, of Massachusetts, P. J. Berckmans, of Georgia. 



The meeting closed with a grand banquet, given by the Massachusetts Hor- 

 ticultural Society in Music Hall. Inasmuch as this account is confined to 

 what Michigan did for this great meeting of the pomologists of America, it 

 may not be out of place to insert here at the close of it an abstract of the 

 pleasant speech made by Hon. W. K. Gibson in responding for Michigan at 

 the banquet. In substance it was as follows : 



Mr. President — I appreciate the honor of being called on to respond to a 

 sentiment so complimentary to the State to which I belong. 



At its last session the legislature of the State of Michigan, recognizing the 

 importance of this meeting, directed the Governor to appoint commissioners 

 to represent here the horticultural and fruit-growing interests of the State, and 

 make an exhibition of its fruit. The display which you have deemed worthy 

 of special notice, is inferior in appearance and quality to that we are usually 

 able to make in more favorable seasons. 



Mr. President, Ave do not feel as though we were strangers here. 

 Among its early pioneers Michigan numbered many from New England, and 

 there has entered into our growth as a State much of the sturdiness and 

 integrity of character, and somewhat of the culture, characteristic of New 

 England life. 



The motto of our State is Si Quceris Peninsulam Ammnam Circumspice, 

 and, sir, if you seek for a beautiful peninsula, look upon her as she lies almost 

 surrounded by the waters of the northern lakes. Every variety of soil, every 

 diversity of climate are hers. In the southern portion are patches of prairie, 

 with hills and valleys, and rivers and lakes, while at the north the waters of 

 Lake Superior break against a coast as rocky and wild as that of New Eng- 

 land. Of the fertility of her soil and its adaptation to the raising of all kinds 

 of fruit, you have evidence before you to-day. Within her borders are also 

 vast forests of pine and also of hard woods, hardly equalled in variety by any 

 State in the union. 



From these forests, sir, within the past few days has gone up, as from a 

 fiery furnace, a cry of suffering from destitute, homeless thousands, which 

 touched the hearts of the east as well as the west, and which has met with such 

 a generous response in this city. 



Mr. President, it seems to me that the heart of this whole nation has grown 

 very tender within the past few months. That bed of pain and suffering upon 

 which the President has lain for so many weary days, watched over by a loving 

 and heroic wife, has done more to awaken generous sympathy and bind 

 together the different sections of the country than all the reconstruction acts 



