LOCAL HORTICULTDRAL SOCIETIES 
OF WISCONSIN. 
MADISON HOKTICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
The Madison Horticultural Society was organized July Y, 1858, under the 
name of “Madison Horticultural Association,” with the following officers: 
President —A. L. Collins. 
Vice President —J. G. Knapp. 
Treamrer —D. J. Powers. 
Secretary —D. S. Curtis. 
The first exhibition was held on Saturday, August 12, 1858. Since then, 
J. G. Knapp, W. T. Leitch and Wm. H. Watson, have successively filled the 
office of President; and J. T. Clark, Geo. Capron and Joseph Hobbins, the 
office of Recording Secretary. ^ 
The Society was granted a charter by the Legislature, on March 29, 1861, 
with its present name, with the usual privileges of such corporations. 
The thirty-second exhibition was held September 24, 1868. Three or four 
exhibitions are held each year, and monthly meetings about half the year. 
Exhibitions prove very successful, financially, there being at this date about 
$500 in the treasury and their influence is very apparent in the increased in¬ 
terest given to the culture of plants in this city. 
The officers, for 1869, are as follows : 
President —W. T. Leitch. 
First Vice President —D. Worthington. 
Second Vice President —Timothy Brown. 
Pirectors—Dv. Joseph Hobbins, J. T. Stevens, Dr. N. J. Moody, John Grip¬ 
per and H. M. Lewis. 
Treasurer —George A. Ma.son. 
Corresponding Secretary—Dv. Joseph Hobbins. 
Recording Secretary —T. D. Plumb. 
Committee on Caspar Meyers, 0. S. Willey and N. J. Moody. 
Committee on Flowers —John Gripper, Edward Thompson and Mrs. 0. 0. 
Johnson. 
Committee on Vegetables —G. A. Mason, N. F. Lund and J. T. Stevens. 
Committee on Finance —Timothy Brown, Wm. Hobbins and H. M. Lewis. 
T. D. PLUMB, 
Recording Secretary. 
Madison, December, 1868. 
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