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STATE HOETICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Chicago and other places. These persons would, from time, to time express 
their desire for the establishment of a permanent society in futherance of 
the design to increase the general stock of knowledge upon the subject; 
to compare views, and furnish opportunity to relate individual experiences; 
to interchange products—seeds as well as fruits—to awaken in the general 
public an interest in the subject of floral ornamentation and arboriculture; 
in the peservation and propagation of forest trees and shrubs, and the growth 
of fruits suited to this climate. 
The meeting organized by the appointment of Thomas How land, a wel 
known pomologist, as chiarman and S. Y. Braude secretary. A committee 
was appointed to draft a constitution and by-laws. 
In accordance therewith the following officers were elected ; 
President. —H. P. Hinsdale. 
Vice-Presient .—Stephen Galt. 
Secretary. —H. T 0’Parrel. 
Treasurer. —S. Y. Brande. 
Executive committee, S. T. Rice, A. Z. Zettestrom with the President 
Yice President and Secretary ex-offiicio. 
The Society voted to hold monthly meetings on the third Monday of each 
month at 2 o’clock in the afternoon of the months of October, November, 
December, Janurary, Febuary and March, and at P. M. of the remaining 
months of the year. 
She society held its first or spring exhibition on the 30th day of June 1868, 
in “Horticultural Hall.” Considering the lateness of the season, the show of 
strawberries was decidedly superior. Samples of all the leading varii ies in cul¬ 
tivation were on exhibition together with a goodly show of early vegetables. 
The attendance and patronage though not all the Society desired or ex¬ 
pected was encouraging, and served to further the determinaton to make 
the fall exhibition surpass it in excellence. 
The second, a fall exhibition was held on the 26th and 26th days of Sep¬ 
tember, 1868. The show of vegetables was truly magnificent. The display 
grapes, apples &c. very fine, though owing to the general failure of the ap¬ 
ple crop the number of specimens was not so great as would undoubtedly 
have been on exhibition. Kenosha county, in proportion to its size, is pro" 
ducing the largest quantity of this fruit in ordinary seasons of any county in 
the state. The fiowers on exhibition were greatly admired, and specimens o f 
pampas grass, eight feetinhight, with a large drooping flowery head, attracted 
universal attention. The interest manifested was encouraging and the 
second fair was unanimously voted “ a success ” 
As a Society we have no endowment, or fund ; the expenses are wholly met 
by voluntary contribution, including an annual membership fee of one dollar. 
We have no experimental garden, and only the nucleus of a library, but we 
hope in time to be supplied with the means to create the latter. 
The present officers are the same as at the organization of the Society. 
Our expectation is, that the Society will continue to be “ a necessity ”, other¬ 
wise we should, knowing the fickle character of many hundred enterprises. 
