ANNUAL REPORT, 
1869. 
The Wisconsin State Horticultural Society has made good 
progress during the last year. . The meetings have been more 
numerously attended than ever ; the addresses delivered and the 
papers presented have been of a valuable character; the ex¬ 
hibitions, both general and special, have been more than usually 
large and attractive ; and the society has also been reasonably 
successful in the new enterprise of directing the improvement 
of the experimental garden on the State University Farm. In 
one thing, only, did it entirely fail—in securing the very mo¬ 
derate appropriation asked of the legislature, to enable it do 
more and better work in the future. 
It is believed that the matter contained in the report here¬ 
with submitted to the members of the society and the public 
at large will be found exceedingly interesting aud valuable. 
As the fall exhibition was a part of the general exhibition of 
the State Agricultural Society, and is fully reported in that 
society’s transactions, but little space will be occupied with it 
in this report, other than with the interesting address of that 
veteran horticulturist. Dr. John A. Warder. • 
Thanks to the liberality of the State Agricultural Board, the 
society has been enabled to meet all its obligations, and has a 
small balance in the treasury. 
The importance of the work done by the society is recog¬ 
nized more and more fully every year by the intelligent peo¬ 
ple of the state, and the time is not remote when its services 
and its necessities will be duly acknowledged by the law-mak¬ 
ing power. 
