Excerpt from Transactions of the Illinois State Horticultural Society, for the Year 1887, Vol. 21: Being the Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Meeting, Held at Princeton, December 13, 14, 15, Also Proceedings of the Central and Alton-Southern District Societies, Also Elmwood, Kankakee and Warsaw Societies, for the Year 1887 II. Its object shall be the advancement of the Science of Pomology and the Art of Horticulture. III. Its members shall consist of Annual members, paying an annual fee of one dollar; of Life members, paying a fee of twenty dollars at one time; and of Honorary members. Who shall only be persons of distinguished merit in Horticulture or kindred sciences, who may, by vote, be invited to participate in the privileges of the Society. The wives of members shall be members without fee. 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.