TRANSACTIONS OF THE Indiana Horticultural Society FOR 1877, BEING THE Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Session, HELD AT PURDUE UNIVERSITY, LAFAYETTE, December 18th, 19th and 20th, 1877, WITH REPORTS AND PROCEEDINGS OF LOCAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES, EMBRACING ESSAYS, ADDRESSES, REPORTS, AND DISCUSSIONS ON VARIOUS SUB- By W. H. RAGAN, SECRETARY. INDIANAPOLIS : INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL COMPANY, STÅTE PRINTERS. 1878. STATE OF INDIANA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. Received January 28, 1878, and referred to the Auditor of State for verification of the financial statements. Returned certified as follows: Examined by the Governor and transmitted to the Secretary of State to be filed and preserved in his office, and published as may be ordered by the Commissioners of the Public Printing and Binding. SAMUEL R. DOWNEY, Secretary, Governor's Office. OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF STATE) February For the appropriation of three hundred dollars a warrant was issued to Sylvester Johnson, President of the Society, in accordance with the requirements of the appropriation act of 1877. This is all the knowledge this office has of the financial transactions of this Society. Filed in my office February 4, 1878. E. HENDERSON, Auditor of State. JOHN E. NEFF, Secretary of State. CLAYTON, IND., December 31, 1877. TO HIS EXCELLENCY, GOVERNOR JAMES D. WILLIAMS: In compliance with the special act of the Legislature, approved March 10, 1875, under which the Indiana Horticultural Society is incorporated, we have the honor to present the following, being the seventeenth annual report of said Society, with the accompanying requisition for the publication thereof. |