286 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



GRAND EIVER VALLEY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



PEEPARED BY SECRETARY COOK. 

 OFFICERS. 



President — Henry Holt, Cascade. 



Vice President — Wright L. Coffiuberry, Grand Rapids. 



Treasurer — Samuel L. Fuller, Grand Rapids. 



Secretary — William K. Cook, Grand Rapids. 



Executive Board — William K. Emmons, Wyoming; Elwood Graham, Walk- 

 er; William K. Munsou, Grand Rapids; Sherman M. Pearsoll, Grand 

 Rapids. 



The regular monthly meetings have been held (with one or two exceptions) 

 and well attended by members who are thoroughly interested in the general 

 subject of horticulture. An important session of the society was the meeting 

 for the discussion of yellows in peach trees on the evening of January 18, 

 1881, (which was well attended by the leading horticulturists of the State), in 

 the parlors of Sweet's Hotel in the city of Grand Rapids. A very large meet- 

 ing was held at the village of Sparta, March 1st, at which time the fruit buds 

 of the peach trees in the townships of Alpine and Sparta were examined, 

 having at that time experienced the severest cold of winter, and the favorable 

 report of the committee was fully verified by the crop which followed. 



The picnic and meeting of the society at the grounds of Munson & Knapp 

 was well attended by members of the society and the people of the neighbor- 

 hood, also a delegation of eleven members of the Allegan county pomologi- 

 cal society, including its president and secretary. 



Delegates from this society to the quarterly meetings of the State society 

 have attended those meetings and reported at our own meetings. 



Our society has held no fair nor have they exhibited fruit as a society, but 

 the interest in our meetings has been kept up and we feel encouraged to con- 

 tinue our work vigorously next year. 



