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THE ILLINOIS FAEMER. 



Jan. 



Annual Meeting of the Illinois State 

 Horticultural Society. 



This meeting commenced at Bryan Ilall in the 

 city of Chicago, December 3, and continued four 

 days. There were seventy members present, a 

 more than usual large number, The most mark- 

 ed feature of the meeting was the absence of 

 nurserymen, aud their places filled with fruit 

 growers and gardeners. The society from which 

 this Society originated was mainly composed of 

 nurserymen, in fact it was controlled almost en- 

 tirely by nurserymen, and their proceedings, 

 though valuable to that class, gave Utile aid to 

 the orchardist and ^he gardener, and we are now 

 happy to announce that the Society is no longer 

 a misnomer — a i urserymen's convention, but 

 actually what it purports to be. a Hortioultural 

 Society. It is true that the exhibition was main- 

 ly confined to fruits, but hereafter the broad 

 field of gardening, orcharding, fruit growing, 

 and flowers are to have their respective positions, 

 and combine for a grand display. The time for 

 holding the annual meeting is so change 1 as to 

 be available for the accomplishment of this ob- 

 ject. 



Most of the subjects discussed related to fruits 

 and fruit growing. The apple, pear and grape 

 occupying a large share of attention. 



We do not intend to give a detailed statement 

 of proceedings, but the most valuable results 

 arrived at, to cull from our ample notes points of 

 most interest to our readers. 



In the list of names that we give below, it will 

 be seen that several of our most prominent nur- 

 serymen were prosent, but the most of these men 

 are now atoong the largest fruit growers of the 

 State, and several of them are going out of the 

 nursery business, in fact less than a fourth of 

 the number were nurserymen: 



LIST OF MEMBERS PRESENT. 



0. B. Galusha, Lisbon; Dr John A. Kennicott, 

 The Grove; Edgar Sanders, C. D. Bragdon, C. T. 

 rhase, J. H. McChesney, T. F. Baldwin, H. M. 

 Thompson, J C. Ure, 'D. C. Bonnard, J. Asa 

 Kennicott, P. W. Gates, F. Sulzer, H. D. Emery, 

 W. W. Corbett, T. Kearnon, and A. J. Higgins, 

 from Chicago; C. R. Overman, W. H. Mann, K. 

 H. Fell, R. H. Holder, and F. K. Phcenix, from 

 Bloomington; J. E. Starr, Alton; Chas. Merrit 

 and Dr. Haskell, from Battle Creek, Michigan; 

 G. W. Minier, Mackinaw, Ills.; J. Huggins, 

 Woodburn; A. R. Whitney and W. H. Hauson, 

 from Franklin Grove; W. D. Robinson, Henry; 

 J. F. Xash, Ottawa; W. C. Flagg, Moro, Ills.; 

 James Crow, Crystal Lake; Robert Douglass, 

 and Dr. W. C. Baker Waukegan; A. Bryant, jr., 

 Princetonj S. G. Minkler, Specie Grove; J. S. 



Sherman, H P. Kimball, and Dr. C. N. Andrewp, 

 fiom Rockford; E. P. Snow, Oregon; J. Periam, 

 Hope; P. W. Alexander. J. T. Little, and J. T. 

 Brubacker, of Dixon, 111?.; E. Baldwin, Farm 

 Ridge; Samuel Edwards, LaMoille; J. 0. Dent, 

 Wenona; D. W. Cropsey. Plainfield; J. Y. Corey, 

 Waukegan; E. B. Warner, Morrison; J. B Phin- 

 ney and M. L. Dunlap, Champaign; James Wake- 

 man, Cottage Hill; F. H. Benson, Havelock; D. 

 S. Boger, Fieeport; H. N. Blis?, Buda; L. Ells- 

 worth, Napervilie; J. P. Reynolds, Springfield; 

 J. Ozanne, jr., and Dr. P. R. Hoy, Racine, Wis.; 

 B. H. Streeter, Morris; H M Ki'lder, Evan.ston; 

 0. 8. Willey, and L. P. Chandler, Madison, Wis.; 

 A. G. Hanford, Columbus, Ohio; Han** Crcker, 

 and J A. Lapham, Milwaukee, Wis.; Verry Aid- 

 rich, Tiskilwa; Wm. W. Johnson, Chicago. 



Mr. C. D. BiiAGDON, President of the Chicago 

 Gardner's Society, delivered the opening address 

 of welcome, and which was followed ty President 

 Kennicott. We have not the space for them, and 

 must be content with a few words from each. 

 Mr. Bragdon's allusion to the insect tribes is a 

 truthful one, and was subsequently pretty well 

 illustrated by Dr. Hoy, of Racine. He said: 



"We have enemies, open and secret enemies. 

 They prey upon us, destroy our substance, neu- 

 tralize our labor, dishearten and disarm us Why? 

 Because we do not know them — do not know the 

 truths which illuminate the laws that govern 

 them — which disclose to us the guise in which 

 they come to torment us, and the character of 

 their weapons. 



" How shall we meet them, and what must be 

 the order of battle, what the mode of attack? 

 and what will be the result cf a victory on either 

 side ? It is plain, if we study our own interests, 

 that the causes which contribute to our advertisy 

 must be sought out and removed. The inciden- 

 tal growth of weeds and hedgerows in the way 

 of our progress must be hewn down down and 

 uprooted. We have friends, open and secret 

 friends, known and unknown, appreciated and 

 unappriciated — friends that labor for us, promote 

 our interests, minister to our comfort, and aid in 

 the supply of our wants. They often come in 

 disguise, and we too often repel them. They 

 are a good providence to us. They prey upon 

 our enemies, and surround and defend us from 

 them. They linger about the homestead, and 

 in the orchard, garden, and field, they labor for 

 us. They are active ministers to our comfort — 

 faithful and true agents. It is important we 

 should know them. It is imperative that we 

 learn to distinguish our friends from our enemies. 

 The search for truth involves the acquisition of 

 this knowledge. And I do not underestimate 

 any man's knowledge when I aver than only the 

 a, b, c, of the truths that affect our life and 

 prosperity, as a producing people, have been 

 learned." 



The old veteran in the ranks of Flora and 

 Pomona, the venerable President of the Society, 

 Dr. Kennicott, was exceeding happy in his re- 



