LOCAL HORTICLUTUKAL SOCIETIES. 583 
GRANT COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The Grant County Horticultural Society, of Platteville, was organized 
December 16, ISG'Z. Its officers are: 
President —Z. H. Rountree. 
Vice President —Jacob Wernli. 
Secretary —Chas. H. Allen. 
Treasuyer —L. L. Goodell. 
These officers constitute the Executive Committee. 
The objects of the Society, as expressed in the constitution, are as follows]: 
“ The advancement of the science of Horticulture in this vicinity, and the 
collection, comparison and preservation of the culture of fruits, flowers and 
garden vegetables in this and adjoining counties.” 
But one exhibition was held, which was held in June, and was eminently 
successful. It is the purpose to hold two exhibitions each year. 
The resources of the Society are : Membership, $2 ; dues, |1; Receipts 
from exhibitions. All premiums awarded to members of the Society at the 
first exhibition were donated, and the Society is now in funds. 
The results of the labors so far have been to awaken an interest in the cul¬ 
ture of flowers and fruits, and to introduce into our place a large number of 
educational books and periodicals. A.s a necessary result of this, grapes and 
small fruits are being planted in abundance, and in a few years our locality 
may be proud of what it can do in this direction. 
CHAS H. ALLEN. 
Secreiary. 
THE KENOSHA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The organization of the “Kenosha Horticultural Society” was the off¬ 
spring of a settled conviction on the part of leading amateurs and cultiva¬ 
tors in the city of Kenosha and vicinity that a high standard of excellence 
in cultivation and improvement in raising fruits and flowers especally, could 
not be attained through the agency of the County Agricultural Society to 
which most of them belonged. Not that the latter did not offer sufficient 
premiums or inducements, but that from the nature of the case, the culti¬ 
vation of grain, the raising of stock and the manufacture of butter and 
cheese must receive its chief attention. Added to which was the further 
consideration that the soil of the nleghbourhood ofKenosho—a sandy loam— 
was pecularly adapted to the growth of the smaller fruits, vegetables and flow¬ 
ers, and a relatively large number of persons had embarked, or were about to 
embark in their cultivation in order to supply to some extent the market in 
