522 STATE HOETICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
K. Heisz, Floyd county, Iowa, on “On Practical Fruit-growing in the North¬ 
west.” 
Communications, which were referred to the proper committee, were read 
from P. Barry, Rochester, N. Y., urging the Society to report to the Ameri¬ 
can Pomological Society. From Dr. Geo. W. Miner, Mackinaw, Ill., inter¬ 
esting items of personal experience in grape culture. From Samuel Edwards 
LaMoille, Ill., an instructive paper on his favorite topic, “ evergreens,” and 
a note from W. B. Davis, publisher of the Wisconsin Fanner^ offering the 
Society the free use of the columns of his paper as our medium of communi¬ 
cation, individually and collectively, on horticultural subjects. 
The committee on the decease of L. P. Chandler, reported the following: 
Resolved^ That in the death of L. P. Chandler, in the early part of the past 
year, we have lost from our ranks an active member and a devoted lover of 
horticulturahpursuits, and the nursery profession, a reliable and upright rep¬ 
resentative, whose frank, open-hearted manner of dealingjs worthy of imita¬ 
tion, and commendable to the brotherhood. 
Resolved^ That we tender to his family our deepest sympathies in their ir¬ 
reparable loss, and assurance that we shall ever cherish the memory of his 
virtue in our heart, and his name in our record. 
R^olved, That our President is hereby instructed to appoint a committee to 
prepare a record of so much of the biography of the deceased as may be de¬ 
sirable for our published report. 
The exhibition was a pleasant entertainment, in the rooms of the Gymnas¬ 
tic Society, and well attended by citizens of Madison. 
The show of fruit was small, but with the display of sealed and preserved 
fruits, winter boquets, and wreaths of evergreens, all most tastefully arranged, 
it proved an attractive feature, and it was easy to see that by a general effort on 
the part of members from abroad to bring in fruits, this new feature in the 
programme, could be made a most brilliant and paying department. 
There were five collections of apples on exhibition. 
Report of Committee 071 Fruit .—The committee on fruit would report that 
they have carefully examined the several collections submitted, and make 
awards as follows: 
1st premium—“ Best ten varieties,” to collection No. 2. 
8d.—These collections are all that come within the requirement of the 
premium list. 
Collection No. 1, by C. M. Plumb, of Lake Mills, consists of twenty-two 
varieties, viz : Seeknofurther, Northern Spy, Red Romanite, Perry Russett, 
Golden Russet, Edgar Russet, Sweet Wine, Dumelows, Yellow Bellflower, 
Canada Black, Vandevere, Fall Pippins, Pennoc, Jersey Black, Jersey Pip¬ 
pin, Rhode Island Greening, Flushing Spitzenburg, Lake, Black Detroit, Blue 
Pearmain, Newark Pippin, Dominie. 
Collection No. 2, by same, consists of twelve varieties, viz : Northern Spy, 
Golden Russet, Pennoc, Seeknofurther, Pound Sweet, Winter Golden Sweet, 
Willow Twig, Black Detroit, Blue Pearmain, Greening, Sweet Wine, Fameuse. 
There were offered by Geo. J. Kellogg, of Janesville, several varieties of 
apples named. Some specimens from J. S. Stickney, of Wauwatosa—a sweet 
winter called “ Weaver,” new and promising, and “Southern specimens of 
the Ben. Davis ” 
Mr. Tuttle presented specimens of a “ Seedling Russet,” very like the Gol¬ 
den Russet, of fine quality. 
