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STATE HORTICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 
pointed a committee to ask for an appropriation from the 
State to promote the objects of the Association. 
In the Wisconsin Farmer lor October of that year, page 388, 
is an editorial stating that: 
“The Wisconsin Fruit Grower’s Association will exhibit in connec¬ 
tion with the State Agricutural Society, the same this year as last, at 
the State Fair. By an arrangement between the parties, members of the 
Fruit Growers’ Association can exchange tickets of membership for those of 
Agricultural Society, on application at the office of the Secretary of the lat¬ 
ter Society, either before or during the Fair.” 
The reports of the judges on fruits at the Agricultural Fair, 
show that the expectations of the Association were fully met. 
The premiums then awarded amounted to $77.00 for apples, 
$22.00 for pears, $10.00 for grapes, $8.00 for plums, $8.00 for 
peaches, $63.00 for flowers and $30.00 for pre serves, jellies 
and pickles. The committee on fruit say : 
“The exhibition was very large and beautiful, completely covering the 
tables which had been provided around one of the tents, and large spaces 
left in the center. This tent, if we are to judge by the immense crowd con¬ 
stantly filling it, seemeed to be one of the great centers of attraction, and 
indeed, it is no wonder that it should have been so In quality and beauty, 
as well as in quantity of fruit, the exhbition was far superior to what your 
committee had dared to anticipate ; showing conclusively, that in spite of 
repeated failures, we need not despair of seeing plenty of good fruit in our 
noble state.” 
The winter previous had destroyed the quince trees, and 
consequently, there were none on exhibition that year. 
In the November number of the Wisconsin Farmer^ page 
410, is a notice for a meeting of the Association at Milwaukee, 
on the 16th of November, for discussion. This meeting took 
place, but appears to have been very thinly attended, partly 
owing to there being some exciting political meetings then in 
session in Milwaukee. The Secretary, as appears by a note 
in the January number of the Farmer^ promised to write out 
ithe proceedings cf that meeting, and hav4 it printed in the 
.Agricultural Transactions of that year, but for some cause he 
did not do so, nor is any notice taken of the meeting by the 
< city papers. 
No minutes have been published of the anual meeting of 
the Association in 1859, and the original records are not with 
Ihe Secretary of the Horticultural Society. 
