Download or read book Eighteenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan, 1888 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.