Excerpt from Twelfth Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan, 1882 Hudson is on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railway, at a point on the line between Lenawee and Hillsdale counties. The Farmers' Union of this place has invited the State Horticultural Society to join it in an Institute on the last day of February and the first two days in March. It will be an open meeting. Everybody is invited to attend and help make the gathering a success. Members of the State society and its branches will be entertained, and the Farmers' Union hopes and expects to have a large attendance of fruit growers from abroad. The Institute will open in the opera house, February 28, at 1 o'clock P. M., and close with an evening session March 1. It is expected that all who come will be willing to contribute something to the discussion of the topics in the programme, and the secretary would be pleased to receive letters or short papers from any who see this programme, and will not be able to attend in person. It is desirable that there be a good show of fruit, especially of novelties or unnamed sorts, also of dried fruit, canned fruit, and jellies. Any contrivance or implement adapted to saving labor in horticultural operations will be given proper attention, and it is quite desirable that fruit packages of various styles be upon exhibition. We hope to have a large attendance from the counties joining Lenawee and Hillsdale, and all who come from a distance will be well received and cared for. 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.