Annual Report of the Indiana State Horticultural Society; Proceedings of the Annual Session, Volume 27The Society., 1888 |
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Page 6 - The Treasurer shall collect and hold all funds of the Society, and pay •out the same only on the order of the Secretary, countersigned by the President.
Page 5 - Society ; establish and maintain correspondence with all local, county, district and State Horticultural Societies, and secure by exchange their transactions, as far as possible, to aid the President, as an executive officer, in the dispatch of business relating to the meetings of the Society, preparing and publishing circulars and notices of horticultural and similar meetings of general interest, and report to...
Page 30 - There seems to be a difference of opinion as to whether or not the Gregg is hardy.
Page 6 - The object of the Society being to collect, condense, and collate information relative to all varieties of fruit, and dispense the same among the people ; every member shall pay into the treasury $1 a year for the purpose of publishing and other expenses.
Page 89 - ... shaded with green, the sap-wood lighter; specific gravity, 0.3969 ; ash, 0.21 ; of no value. " Bark is often utilized upon the farm for ties and for extemporaneous muzzles to prevent the horses from cropping the plants when plowing corn. Fruit large, succulent, with many large, shining brown seeds; a favorite food of the raccoon, relished by men, but rejected by swine.
Page 6 - Committee to procure rooms and make all necessary arrangements for the meetings of the society, to make out a programme of business for each meeting, and attend to such other duties as the society may from time to time direct. 12. The officers of this society shall constitute a Board of Horticulture, five of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, the officers of the society to be officers of the Board, said Board to meet immediately on the adjournment of the Society, and...
Page 6 - Society may call a meeting of the Society, at any time and place they may consider advisable, by a notice of thirty days in the public papers.
Page 5 - The Secretary shall record all the doings of the society, collate and prepare all communications, etc., for the public press, and pay over all moneys received...
Page 4 - Rush, Shelby, Tipton, Union and Wayne. FIFTH DISTRICT. — GW Grant, Vice President. Benton, Cass, Carroll, Fulton, Jasper, Laporte, Marshall, Newton, Porter, Pulaski, Starke, St. Joseph and White. SIXTH DISTRICT. — IDG Nelson, Vice President. Adams, Allen, Dekalb, Elkhart, Huntington, Kosciusko, Lagrange, Miami, Noble, Steuben, Wabash, Wells and Whitley. CONSTITUTION 1. This Society shall be known as " INDIANA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
Page 88 - ... that in a few years we shall have many new native sorts, combining the good qualities of the best foreign grapes, with the hardiness of the indigenous ones, and with also the necessary adaptation to the various soils and climates of the United States.