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known and tested. Apples to be followed by pears, peaches, 

 plums, grapes, _apricots, nectarines, etc., etc. 



Three P. M. — Reports of committees. Introduction of 

 subjects by members, relating to pruning, diseases, etc., all 

 of which to be transferred to committees for report; after 

 which discussion continued. 



FRIDAY. 



Nine A. M. — Reports of committees, resolutions, incidental 

 remarks and suggestions, discussion of fruits continued. 

 P. M. — Resolutions, discussions continued, adjournment. 



A WELCOME TO THE SOCIETY. 



A communication Avas received from W. B. Isaacs, Esq., 

 Chairman of the Reception Committee, proffering an address of 

 welcome from the Mayor, to be delivered in the hall of the 

 House of Delegates at 12^ o'clock P. M. 



On behalf of the City Council and the Committee of Recep- 

 tion, Mr. Isaacs also extended to the Society an invitation to 

 participate in an excursion down James river on the steamer 

 Palisade this afternoon at 4^ o'clock. The invitations were 

 unanimously accepted. 



After some desultory discussion, at 11 o'clock the Society 

 adjourned to meet again at 13, and then proceed in a body to 

 the Capitol to be welcomed by the Mayor. 



FORMAL WELCOME. 



After the adjournment of the Society, the members in the 

 hall, to the number of one hundred or more, formed in proces- 

 sion and marched in couples, arm in arm, to the hall of the 

 House of Delegates, in the Capitol, where many persons had 

 already assembled to witness the formal welcome of guests to 

 Richmond. All being seated, Mr. John M. Allan, of the Vir- 

 ginia Horticultural and Pomological Society, in a few words 

 introduced the Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, President of the 

 American Pomological Society, to the Hon. A. M. Keiley, 



