Oo ANNUAL REPORT. 



wood & Emery, and requesting Mr. F. G. Gould, of Excelsior, one 

 of our Executive Committee, to go with me, again visited Mr. 

 Peterson, and solicited an exchange of cions for the benefit of our 

 Society. Mr. Peterson entered fully into the spirit of our mission, 

 cut us a liberal supply of cions from his pet trees, many more than 

 we could give him in exchange at the time, and entertained us 

 hospitably. Mr. Gould will make you his report on these trees, 

 and I will therefore only append a list of the cions received and 

 distributed. It is expected that when the trees from these cions 

 are ready, the new crop of cions will be cut and distributed to 

 members of the Horticultural Society for general trial, the propaga- 

 tors reserving enough to compensate them for their trouble. In 

 making this distribution we did not send to the Superintendents 

 of all the experimental stations, but only to such as were known to 

 be experts and having facilities for propagating. The larger share 

 appearing in Mr. Gould's name covers an allottment for the new 

 University farm to be delivered when Prof. Porter gets ready for 

 them. On my return I reported the find to Mr. Gideon, who agreed 

 to go and examine the trees and report to the society what he 

 thought of them. Mr. Pearce has also visited them; Mr. Peterson 

 is expected here with samples of the apples at this meeting, and on 

 the whole if this little group of trees can stand the attention they 

 are likely to receive, they must be extemely hardy. The following 

 is the list- 



BILLS ALLOWED AND ORDERS DRAWN. 



For the purpose of comparison with the Treasurer's report at 

 this time, the bills allowed and orders drawn from commencement 

 of last annual meeting up to Veh. 5, will be found scheduled on 

 pages 209 and 210 of the annual report of 1883: 



