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STATE HOKTICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
largest ever held, filling with plants, fiowers and fruit a building 32x80, or 
about 1,600 feet of table room, also occupying about 1,000 feet in addition 
to the above in the State Society’s large tent. 
To speak more minutely of the exhibition we would say that on March 22d, 
186Y, your Executive Committee met with the Executive Committee of the State 
Agricultural Society and after trying in vain to carry out the letter of your 
resolution of instructions, did agree upon a basis of uniting or holding a 
joint exhibition September 23d to the 27th, inclusive. The basis of this 
agreement is that this Society was to have control of the Horticultural De¬ 
partment, noi^ owing to the lateness of the day, changing in any particular 
the premiums offered, or committees as published, but we^e to fill all vacan¬ 
cies that might occur. The premiums, as offered, amounting in the aggre¬ 
gate to |)478, were to be paid our Society in money, the premiums to be pur¬ 
chased and distributed by this body. This is, in short, the substance of the 
understanding as made at the time, and which was carried out as best we 
could. 
Cf the future we are hopeful, believing that an amicable arrangement can 
and will be made with the State Agricultural Society, whereby we will be 
made the representatives of the Horticultural interest of the Fair, assuming 
the entire control of the same, making up the premium lists as also the com¬ 
mittees, purchasing all premiums, and distributing the same ; they to pay to 
the treasury of our Society a sum equal in amount to the premiums offered 
by them at the last Fair. This I trust will be satisfactory to the members 
present, and will be the source of a small i)icome to this Society. 
I say this depaftmeni belongs to us. The Wisconsin State Horticultural Socieey 
should be controlled^ in this respect^ by our members, and it ought to be a source 
of a small income to our Association. During the last session of the legisla¬ 
ture there was a bill introduced, known as bill 191, Assembly, relating to the 
growth of forest trees, which provided that the State Agricultural Society 
and the Wisconsin Horticultural Society shall each appoint a man, and they 
two a third man, which shall constitute a commission to report to the legis¬ 
lature upon the growth of forest trees, their effects upon the climate and 
and health of the State as afiected thereby. Hon. I. A. Lapham, of Mil¬ 
waukee was so appointed by the Agricultural Society, and Judge J.^G. Knapp, 
of Madison, by the Horticultural Society. As the result of their labors we 
have, in a neat pamphlet form, this little volume of about one hundred pages, 
very complete in suggestions and descriptions of the forest trees well adapt¬ 
ed to our climate and uses. All that it now lacks is to be numerously illus¬ 
trated, showing the effects of tornadoes or currents of air, and to give a 
fuller description of the trees themselves, so that the inexperienced can 
trace the resemblance from the illustration to the forest. There should bean 
effort made to secure an appropriation for this purpose. Every member pres¬ 
ent should also make it a^point to press upon his representative the necessity 
of publishing our report. If left for one or two to attend to, it may be lost, 
but if we unitedly and separately ask for it, there is not much doubt but it 
will be granted. 
