A Season Of Discussion And Flow Of Wisdom

There has been beid in this city during the past week the annunl meeting of the state horticultural society composed largely of representatives froru Michigan, Ohio, New York and the Dominion. The meeting bas been one of the most interesting and profitable of the kind ever held in any state, yet at no time have all the seats in the court room been occupied. Very able papers have been read, prepared after studied research by men eminent in the departinents to which they related. Still, there has been shovvn a want of appreciationupon the part of tho public to come forth and listen. Every fruit grower of importance in Washtenaw county ought to have been present, not only to proiit from experi.euco and superior knowledge of otliers. but to inspect the best exhibiton of ap pies, considering quality not quantity. i that. in the language of Wastenaw's most noted grower, Mr. 8. W. Dorr of Manchester, has ever been placed before the people of Michigan. It was an exhibition comprised not altogether of that. grown in Washtenaw. The state at large, other states and Canada were represented. Exhibition at fairs are limited to county or state, but at this meeting, the door was opened to any grower reside where he may. There was therefore, through so many exhibitions keen competition, and as duly reported by the chairman of the committee on awards, extreme difficulty. and none bnt experts were able to determine among so many, fine specimens, which were the fmest. At this season of the year vvhen fruit peowers have little t do, there is no reason why the attendance should not have exceeded accommodations. Indeed some not pecuniarily interested have attended and been well repaid for time spent. Delegates from abroad were profuse in thanks toward our people for the manner in which they had been treated during their brief sojourn among us. Said the secretary: "Our reception in Ann Arbor has been the warmest, our sessions have been the best attended. and altogether it has been the best annual meeting known in the historyof the society." Our county society, eomprising such fruit-growers as Messrs. Dorr, Baldwin, l'age, Baur and Covert have put forth untiring efforts to make this meeting a grand success. That they have succeeded beyond anticipation admits of no doubt.