Annual Report of the Indiana State Horticultural Society; Proceedings of the Annual Session, Volume 35The Society., 1896 |
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1st premium acre Agriculture apples bearing beautiful Broad Ripple buds bushels C. M. Hobbs Carthage committee Connersville County crop cultivation D. F. Corwin Daniel Cox drouth E. Y. Teas early expenses Fair farm fertile Fielding & Buell flavor flowers frost fruit fruit exhibited grafting grapes ground grower growing grown Hendricks Hendricks County horticulturist inches Indiana Horticultural Society Indianapolis insects Irvington Isham Sedgwick Joseph Joseph County Keiffer kernel kind Kingsbury land Marion Marion County mulch Mustard N. E. Woods Named Varieties Newby Newton nuts Ohio orchards Papaw peach pear Pecksburg persimmon pistillate plants Plate plowed plums premiums on fruit President Hobbs produce Prof pruning quince Richmond Wayne ripen season Second Premium Secretary seedlings seeds Shelbyville shell soil South Bend southern species spring Springboro Stevens strawberries Sylvester Johnson Tippecanoe trees Troop Vice-President W. D. Thomas W. H. Ragan wild winter Wolcottville
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Page 5 - Members' wives will be members without fee. Article V. Each member shall be entitled to a copy of the transactions of the Society as often as the same shall be published. Article VI. The Treasurer shall not disburse money except on the order of the Secretary, countersigned by the President. Article VII. The Executive Committee shall require of the Treasurer such security as may be deemed sufficient for the safe keeping of the funds of the Society. Article VIII. The seal of the Society shall consist...
Page 6 - Indiana Horticultural Society;" within this, and above the central figure, consisting of a vase of flowers, a pear and apple resting upon a section of vine with its fruit, the words " Organized 1860 ; " below,
Page 120 - Transplanting is most successfully done in autumn, as the tree then becomes adjusted to its place by spring, and the roots, if properly pruned before planting, will be nicely calloused and ready to throw out their fibrous rootlets as soon as the warm days of spring appear. SOIL AND LOCATION. The persimmon is similar to the peach and plum in its choice of soil and location, but it will grow well on almost any kind of soil, from rich bottom land, to poor, thin soil of the hill tops. In fact we have...
Page 6 - Treasurer, on his receipt; shall receive and answer all communications addressed to the 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...
Page 7 - The President, Secretary and Executive Committee 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 press.
Page 6 - ... the written orders of the President, which he shall retain and file as vouchers; he shall make an annual report to the Society of the receipts and disbursements, which, with the vouchers, shall be referred to a special auditing committee appointed at the annual meeting. Before entering upon his duties he shall give bond to the Society in the sum of ten thousand dollars for the faithful performance of his duties, such bonds to be approved by the Executive Board.
Page 6 - The officers shall be elected separately and annually by a ballot vote, and hold their office until their successors are elected. 7th. 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 two dollars a year for the purpose of publishing, and other expenses.
Page 54 - It was Voted, That the President be authorized to appoint a committee of three to make further study and report to the next meeting of the council.
Page 6 - Society being to collect, condense and collate information relative to varieties of fruits and other horticultural products, and dispense the same among the people of the State, every member shall pay into the treasury one dollar a year for the purpose of publishing and other expenses : Provided, That members of local horticultural societies may become members by paying into the treasury, through their respective local organizations, the sum of fifty cents each.
Page 2 - Sir — In accordance with the requirements of law, I have the honor to herewith present...