406 BOARD OF AGRICULTUEE. 



The motion was seconded and carried. 



It was moved and seconded that so much of the report of the Com- 

 mittee as relates to publishing the President's address be omitted, and 

 the balance of the report be fully concurred in. 



The motion was carried. 



The Committee on Resolutions announced that it had no report to 

 make. 



Mr. Zion: By permission I would like to read a letter from the Sec- 

 retary of the American Apple Growers' Association. 



Permission was granted, and Mr. Zion read the following: 



(The letter here mentioned never reached my hands.— Secretary.) 



President Stevens: One part of our program has been omitted for 

 want of time. A paper on "Fire Blight'-' and a letter to the Magazine of 

 Hofticulture, by Henry Ward Beecher, read before the Indiana Horticul- 

 tural Society and published in the Magazine of Horticulture in 1844, was 

 to have been read here today. Is it the wish of the Society that we incor- 

 porate it in our report? 



On motion of Mr. Zion, duly seconded, it was ordered that the paper 

 be incorporated in the report. 



The meeting then adjourned sine die. 



HENRY WARD BEECHER AS AN HORTICULTURIST. 



[Hon. W. II. Ragan, formerly of this State, but now of Washington, D. C, has kindly 

 furnished these two interesting letters, from the pen of Henry Ward Beecher, to be read 

 at our Annual Meeting, December 3-4, 1902.] 



A series of interesting articles, written by the Rev. Henry Ward 

 Beecher, to the Magazine of Horticulture, of Boston, in the early forties, 

 when he was pastor of the Second Presbyterian church, at Indianapolis, 

 Ind., will prove to be most interesting reading, for they show how ear- 

 nestly this gifted man scanned every subject that for a time engaged his 

 attention. 



In the January number of the Magazine of Horticulture for 1845, 

 we find the second df these articles with the following introduction: 

 *T am induced to send you some remarks upon the 'Condition of things 

 in this State, in horticultural matters, from observing your disposition 



