Excerpt from Eighteenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan, 1888 A new feature of the Report will be found in the transactions of the West Michigan Fruit Growers' Society, embracing minutes of meetings held dur ing several recent years, now presented because untoward conditions prevent ed publication when they were current. They Will be found to contain much valuable matter, especially for those engaged in fruit growing along the Mich igan lake shore. Another portion of the work, while not entirely new, is much enlarged in comparison with former Volumes - the portraits and sketches of men promi nent in Michigan horticulture in one way or another. There are scores more of those whose achievements or labors justify preservation of a record thereof in these volumes, together with a reproduction, by engraving of their features, that future generations of pomologists may know how the pioneers looked, as well as what they did. For the excellent plates accompanying Prof. Smith's report on yellows, the society is indebted to Hon. Edwin Willits of Washington, assistant secretary of agriculture, who very gladly placed them at my service. Although the system of auxiliary membership and branch societies has been abrogated, reports of a number of district or local societies have been included. Most of those represented have contributed, voluntarily, more or less to the support of the state society, and are willing and valuable aids to our work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Nineteenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan, 1889 Article I. - Name, Territory, and Objects. The name of the society shall be the Michigan State Horticultural society; and its territory shall be the state of Michigan. Its objects shall be the development of an adequate appreciation of the peculiar adaptation of the soils and climate of the state to the pursuit of horticulture in all its branches; and the collection and dissemination of information bearing upon the theory and practice of the same, as well as upon the arts and sciences directly or indirectly associated therewith, or calculated to elevate or improve the practice thereof. Article II. - Officers And Mode Of Election. The officers of the society shall be a president, a secretary, and a treasurer, together with an executive board of six members, aside from the president, secretary, and treasurer, who shall be ex officio members of the said board. Said board shall designate one of its members as vice-president. The officers shall be elected by ballot. Article III. - A Quorum. Four members of the executive board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of said board: Provided, That each of the members thereof shall have been notified, in the usual manner, of the time, place, and object of such meeting. Article IV. - Annual Meeting And Election Of Officers. The annual meeting of the society, for the election of the officers specified in Article II., shall occur on the first Wednesday of December in each year, and the officers then elected shall enter upon the discharge of their duties as such, on the first day of January next ensuing; but in case of a failure to elect at that time, such election may be held at a subsequent time at an adjourned meeting, or at a meeting of the society called for that purpose, in the usual manner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Twentieth Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan, 1890 Sec. 2. In any township' in this state In which such contagious disease exists, or in which there is good reason to thinky it exists, or danger may be justly apprehended of its introduction, as such information becomes known to the township board or any member thereof, it shall [be] by the duty of said board to appoint forthwith three competent freeholders of said township as commissioners, who shall hold office during the pleasure of said board, and such order of appointment and of revocation shall be entered at large up on the township records. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Forty-First Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan: For the Year 1911 Forty-First Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan: For the Year 1911 was written by an unknown author in 1912. This is a 277 page book, containing 110213 words and 2 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Eleventh Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan, 1881 There was a lighter attendance Tuesday morning, but the Executive Board were present and a few others. The Secretary read the following letter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Tenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan: 1880 I am not a little amused sometimes when persons come to me to get information in regard to trees, fruits, and their management. They want I Should give them information that will save them hundreds of dollars in their future selection and management of fruit; and when I offer them all I know, and a hundred fold more, in a volume of the transactions of our Society, for the mere pittance of one dollar, they have the graceless impudence to reply that they cannot afford it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Seventeenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan, 1887 During the year 1886, in which the State of Michigan celebrated her semi centennial, there was brought together a large amount of information of great historical value, that has been compiled in a volume issued by the State. The article devoted to horticulture, owing to the limited time for preparation, and the small space allotted to it, was but the merest epitome of our half century's progress in this art. It was this fact, coupled With the earnest desire to preserve a more complete account of the early undertakings in orchard planting, that led the Michigan State Horticultural Society to in quire into the best method of securing this historical material and placing it in convenient form for future reference. By unanimous vote of the Executive Board of the Society, Mr. T. T. Lyon, the President of the Society, was invited to contribute a paper for our sixteenth volume of proceedings, embodying the prominent features connected With the rapid development of the horticultural interests of Michigan in the half century just closed. No man in the State had been so thoroughly iden tified with the progress in fruit culture, and no one had done so much to place Michigan in the front rank in the production of the best fruits as Presi dent Lyon. He undertook the work, and the following pages testify to the painstaking labor and indefatigable research brought to bear upon the his tory. It was found impossible to give completeness to the enterprise if the preparation was hastened so as to make the compilation a contribution to the volume for 1886, so that the work was continued into this year and is made the leading feature of our seventeenth volume of proceedings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.