156 State Horticultural Society. 



the Missouri Horticultural Society, who was detained by the sickness 

 of a son ; W. T. Macoun, Canada ; P. J. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. ; 

 Charles W. Garfield, Grand Rapids, Mich, 



L. R. Taft of Michigan gave the Treasurer's report, showing receipts 

 in two years since the last meeting as $1,470; payments, $1,257.70; and 

 balance on hand, $1,014.60. A committee consisting of C. G. Patten, 

 Fabrian Garcia and Albert Dickens was appointed to audit the report. 



The report of Secretary John Craig showed an increased interest 

 in the work of the Society. The work of the organization, it said, was 

 taking on a broader scope from year to year. Some purposes to which 

 it was working was the grading and nomenclature of fruits. "This is 

 becoming a unifying and correlating body in pomological councils of the 

 country," said the report. It recommended that life membership cer- 

 tificates be issued for only thirty years. — American Fruits, Rochester, 

 N.Y. 



AMERICAN PO'MOLOGISTS MEET IN THE WEST. 



The twenty-ninth biennial meeting of the American Pomological 

 Society was held in Kansas City, September 19-21. The banquet rooms 

 of the Coates House were beautifully decorated with ferns and palms. 

 More than two hundred delegates and members were present, represent- 

 ing a wide scope of country. Some 1,600 or more plates of fine fruit 

 were exhibited, some from New York, from Alabama, Florida, New 

 Mexico, Utah, Washington and Michigan, with most of the states lying 

 in between helping to make up the fine show. Missouri had apples on 

 the tables in fine condition from the crops of 1903 and 1904, which had 

 been shown at the World's Fair, again at State meeting in Neosho and 

 held till present time, a valuable demonstration in the possibilities of 

 cold storage. 



On taking the chair. President Watrous said we were a fortunate 

 people in a horticultural way. Never has the work of this Society been 

 called into question. The foundation for solid work, which was laid 

 at the first, has endured, and would endure indefinitely. 



A pertinent point in the Secretary's report was that all Pomological 

 and Horticultural Societies meet and affiliate with this one. Back num- 

 bers of the reports were becoming scarce, and the Secretary suggested 

 that they be sold and not given away as formerly. 



The subject, American Plums, was introduced by Prof. Dickens, 

 Kansas Agricultural College, who finds these varieties valuable in his 

 state. They are good all-round plums, giving regular crops. 



