PROCEEDINGS OF THE V/ESTERN 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. 



The eminent character and usefuhiess of the annual meetings of the Western 

 New York Horticultural Society will best be indicated by the officers and com- 

 mittees for the year 1874, which are as follows: 



President — Patrick Barry, Eochester. 



Vice Presidents — S. S. Graves, Geneva; 11. E. Hooker, Rochester; C. L. 

 Hoag, Lockport. 



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



Executive Committee — W. C. Barry, Rochester; T. B. Yale, Brighton ; John 

 J. Thomas, Union Springs; T. C. Maxwell, Geneva; B. Moody, Lockport. 



Committee on Native Fruits — J. J. Thomas, Union Springs; Chas. Downing, 

 Newburgh; W. C. Barry, Rochester; G. S. Conover, Geneva; W. B. Smith, 

 Syracuse. 



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

 H. Babcock, Lockport. 



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

 Thomas, Union Springs; D. W. Beadle, St. Catherines, Ont. ; George H. 

 Ellwanger, Rochester. 



Entoniologij — Hugh T. Brooks, Pearl Creek; E. W. Sylvester, Lyons; E. Tf. 

 Herendeen, Geneva; Mr, Saunders, Ont. 



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

 Rochester; T. C. Maxwell, Geneva; G. Zimmerman, Buffalo. 



Garden Vegetables — E. S. Hay ward, Rochester ; John Craine, Lockport ; J. 

 W. Gray, Albion. 



Ornithology — Geo. T. Fish, Rochester ; H. T. Brooks, Pearl Creek ; E. W. 

 Herendeen, Geneva. 



Botany — W. C. Barr}*, Rochester; J. J. Thomas, Union Springs; D. "W. 

 Beadle, St. Catherines, Ont.; C. M. Hooker, Rochester. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



The nineteenth annual meeting of the Society convened at Rochester, in the 

 common council chamber, January 7th, 1874, at 11 o'clock, A. M. The Presi- 

 dent, Patric Barry, took the chair, and called the meeting to order. 



