ANNUAL MEETING AT LEXINGTON 251 



A library like many of our other State societies have in use is also 

 needed and when we get the money from our New Orleans matter it 

 is agreadthat it be used for the beginning of a library. The best use 

 it could possibly be put to. 



Our new apples are still promising, and this year we have a few 

 more candidates for favor. 



Out of the hundreds now scattered over the country we have to 

 our special notice about a dozen, and I think yet we will find the apple 

 desired above all others. Our whole south-west is filled with seed- 

 lings and among them are some very promising. 



A STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The need of one is apparent more and more every year. I hope 

 that this year we may secure the money needed for such work, if not 

 enough to pay the whole expense, at least enough to pay for the extra 

 trouble they will take in the work. One or two thousand for the two 

 years we should have, at least. Five or six hundred dollars a year 

 would help some one to make a specialty of this work and give the 

 time to it, it demands, and when we want some assistance we would not 

 feel afraid to call upon them. 



AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



This society will meet at Boston next September, and it would be 

 well for our society to send a delegate or two with a collection of 

 fruits. 



The meetings ( f this society are the most important of any held in 

 the United States and our State at least should be represented. The 

 last report of that society is one of the most valuable of its kind. 



THE STATE SOCIETIES. 



The numerous State societies of the country receive aid from 

 their States, some more and some less. But this we know, that 

 wherever the State has been and is now liberal with them, there we 

 find horticulture taking an advan e4 step and their progress has been 

 very marked. 



First of all the State of California has been the leader in this work 

 and their works show for themselves. 



The wine business alone received $10,000, and with special agents 

 they show what can be done. The horticultural department gets 

 $5,000, the secretery, 81,800 and the chief of horticulture, 82,400 per 



