Annual Report Of The Secretary Of The State Horticultural Society Of Michigan V 1887 PDF Download

Excerpt from Seventeenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan, 1887 During the year 1886, in which the State of Michigan celebrated her semi centennial, there was brought together a large amount of information of great historical value, that has been compiled in a volume issued by the State. The article devoted to horticulture, owing to the limited time for preparation, and the small space allotted to it, was but the merest epitome of our half century's progress in this art. It was this fact, coupled With the earnest desire to preserve a more complete account of the early undertakings in orchard planting, that led the Michigan State Horticultural Society to in quire into the best method of securing this historical material and placing it in convenient form for future reference. By unanimous vote of the Executive Board of the Society, Mr. T. T. Lyon, the President of the Society, was invited to contribute a paper for our sixteenth volume of proceedings, embodying the prominent features connected With the rapid development of the horticultural interests of Michigan in the half century just closed. No man in the State had been so thoroughly iden tified with the progress in fruit culture, and no one had done so much to place Michigan in the front rank in the production of the best fruits as Presi dent Lyon. He undertook the work, and the following pages testify to the painstaking labor and indefatigable research brought to bear upon the his tory. It was found impossible to give completeness to the enterprise if the preparation was hastened so as to make the compilation a contribution to the volume for 1886, so that the work was continued into this year and is made the leading feature of our seventeenth volume of proceedings. 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.