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REPORT OF THE DELEGATE TO THE WISCONSIN HORTICULTURAL SOCIE- 
‘TY, FEBRUARY 3D, 4TH AND 5TH, 1874. 
At the last annual meeting of this Society, held in Minneapolis, 
Jan. 18th-20th, 1874, I was elected a delegate, and furnished with 
ample funds to attend the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Horticul- 
tural Society, of which meeting the following is my report. : 
The annual meeting of the Wisconsin Horticultural Society opened 
Tuesday evening, February 3d, under very favorable auspices, in the 
agricultural rooms in the capitol, at Madison. . The room was crowd- 
ed to its fullest capacity, with delegates from all parts of the State. 
Many ladies honored the meeting with their presence, and some of 
them contributed their mite in the way of most entertaining papers, 
which showed a practical knowledge of floriculture, and their ability 
to present to the attentive audience the beautiful side of this ‘‘ heay- 
en-born art.” It has never been my fortune to meet with a more 
genial body of horticulturists—men who were filled with enthusiasm 
and a thorough appreciation of the importance of: this great branch 
of scientific industry—men who were willing to impart to others the 
knowledge they had gained by experience and observation, and ea- 
ger to dive deeper into the hidden mysteries of this, the oldest and 
noblest of arts. The whole meeting, from the President’s hearty 
and spicy address to the closing session and adjournment, was a suc- 
cess. 
The programme of the meeting, which had been published and ex- 
tensively circulated for some time previous, provided for a large 
number of essays and papers upon subjects pertaming to horticul- 
ture, and in this our Wisconsin friends are considerably in advance 
of us, as well as in horticultural experience, and the management of 
their Society, as by this course they are enabled to get out a more 
valuable report with less labor and expense. 
In this meeting the programme was strictly followed, and the 
papers presented and read were numerous, able, entertaining and 
well worthy of preservation for future generations to read. The dis- 
cussions were warm and animated, and in them much information 
was drawn out that will be profitable and an aid to greater improve- 
ment. The subject of the losses and injury to fruit and ornamen- 
tal trees, in the winter of 1872-3 was discussed at considerable 
