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STATE HOETICLUTUKAL SOCIETY. 
The Committee appointed at a former meeting on the or¬ 
ganization of the Association, made the following report: 
“The comraittee on re-organization of the Fruit-growers Asrociation, after 
such consultations as our limited time would allow, respectfully submit the 
following: That we cannot without further consultation present a well pre¬ 
pared constitution and by-laws for the government of the A-ssociatiO'., but we 
suggest that the organization be now so far elfected as to adopt a title for 
the Association, and elect the officers, viz., a President, one Vice-President 
from each County in the State, a Secretary and Treasurer, and an Executive 
Committee, to consist of the President, Secretary, Treasurer and such two 
Vice-Presidents as may be elected for that purpose ; and we propose for a 
name, ‘The Wisconsin State Horticultural Society and nominate the follow¬ 
ing officers, viz.: President, Hon. B. F. Hopkins; Vice-Presidents, one in 
each County named; Secretary, J. C. Plumb, Madison; Treasurer, F. 0. 
Curtis, Columbia; Executive Committee, Geo. J. Kellogg, Rock, and L. P. 
Chandler, Dane.” 
The report was adopted, and the persons named elected. 
Considerable discussion on various subjects took place at 
these meetings, of which no minutes have been preserved. 
Appropriate resolutions were also adopted concerning the 
death of Mr. A. Q. Hanford, formerly President of the Asso¬ 
ciation and widely known as one of the leading horticulturists 
of the Noith-west; who died in Columbus, Ohio, September 8, 
1864. But unfortunately the record of those resolutions can¬ 
not be found in time for their publication here. During the 
many years of his residence in Wisconsin, which continued 
until 1861, (when he became proprietor of extensive nurseries 
in Columbus, Ohio, and removed to that Staie,) his chief atten¬ 
tion was given to the cultivation of fruits, to the introduction 
of approved varieties, among the people of the north-west, and 
to the dissemination of 'a knowledge of the established prin¬ 
ciples of his possession. 
In the language of the Editor of the Wuconsin Farmer^ 
‘ [no horticulturist of the West has ever been more successful 
in actual practice, none has established a better reputation for 
correctness of knowledge and integrity in all business transac¬ 
tions, and none has made his pen more useful in the diffusion 
of valuable information derived from laborious and carefully 
conducted experiments.” 
