PROCEEDINGS OF THE WESTERN NEW 

 YORK HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



REPORTED AND CONDENSED FOR THE MICHIGAN STATE POMOLOGICAL 



SOCIETY BY P. C. REYNOLDS, HORTICULTURAL EDITOR OF THE 



AMERICAN RURAL HOME, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK. 



This distinguisbed Society has a Committee on Xomenclature, a Committee 

 on American Fruits, a Committee on Foreign Fruits, a General Fruit Com- 

 mittee, and Committees on Entomology, Ornamental Trees and Plants, Gar- 

 den Vegetables, Ornithology, and Botany. Its ofBcers are as follows for 1875: 



President — Patrick Barry, Rochester. 



Vice Presidc7its — E. A. Bronson, Geneva; H. E. Hooker, Piochester ; J. H. 

 Babcock, Lockport. 



Secretary a7id Treasurer — P. C. Reynolds, Rochester. 



Executive Committee — W. C. Barry, Rochester; J. B. Jones, Rochester; 

 E. W. Sylvester, Lyons ; T. C. Maxwell, Geneva ; E. Moody, Lockport. 



Committee oyi Native Fruits — J. J. Thomas, Union Springs; Charles Down- 

 ing, Newburgh ; W. C. Bafty, Rochester ; S. D. Willard, Geneva ; W. B. 

 Smith, Syracuse. 



Foreign Fruits — George Ellwanger, Rochester: T. C, Maxwell, Geneva; 

 C. L. Hoag, Lockport. 



Nomenclature — Charles Downing, Newburgh; P. Barry, Rochester; J. J. 

 Thomas, Union Springs ; D.W.Beadle, St. Catharines, Ont. ; George G. At- 

 ■wood, Geneva. 



Entomology — Hugh T. Brooks, Pearl Creek ; Dr. A. Merrill, Geneva ; C. L. 

 Van Dusen, Geneva; Mr. Saunders, Ontario. 



Ornamental Trees and Plants — George Ellwanger, Rochester; W. S. Little, 

 Rochester; T. C. Maxwell, Geneva; S. S. Graves, Geneva. 



Garden Vegetalles — E. S. Hayward, Rochester ; John Crane, Lockport ; 

 J. W. Gray, Albion. 



Ornitliology — George T. Fish, Rochester; H. T. Brooks, Pearl Creek; 

 David Henry, Geneva. 



Botany — W. C. Barry, Rochester ; J. J. Thomas, Union Springs ; D. W. 

 Beadle, St. Catharines, Ont.: C. ^L Hooker, Rochester. 



