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OHIO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY FOR 18S5-86. 



President — N. Ohmer, Dayton. 

 Vice-President — H. Y. Beebe, Ravenna. 

 Secretary — George W. Campbell, Delaware. 

 Treasurer — J. J. Harrison, Painesville. 



Ad Interim Committee, with above officers — R. H. Warder, North Bend, 

 Hamilton county; A. F. Newell, Warren, Trumbull county; S. H. Hurst, 

 Cbillicothe, Ross county ; Matthew Crawford, Cuyahoga Falls, Summit county ; 

 W. W. Farnsworth, Waterville, Lucas county ; W. J. Green, Columbus, Frank- 

 lin county ; E. H. Cushman, Euclid, Cuyahoga county; F. R. Palmer, Mans- 

 field; Richland county ; Leo Weltz, Wilmington, Clinton county ; N. H. 

 Albaugh, Tadmor, Montgomery county. 



Standing Committee on Nomenclature — Leo Weltz, Wilmington, Clinton 

 county; J. R. Hurst, Chillicothe, Ross county; H. G. Tryon, Willoughby, 

 Lake county; George W. Campbell, Delaware, Delaware county; N. Ohmer, 

 Dayton, Montgomery county; Daniel Duer, Millersburgh, Holmes county. 



The following letter from the secretary of the Ohio Horticultural Society 

 in answer to a letter of inquiry sent gives important information: 



Delaware, Ohio, Nov. 12, 1886. 



My Dear Sir: — The Ohio State Horticultural Society has now been in 

 existence under its present name for twenty years, and is an outgrowth of the 

 Ohio Pomological Society, the latter having been organized in 1847. Like 

 most societies of the kind its immediate membership is not very large, but 

 numbers many of the most intelligent and enthusiastic horticulturists through- 

 out the State. Their methods consist in encouraging as far as possible the 

 formation of local horticultural societies in all parts of the State, and creat- 

 ing an interest in horticulture, floriculture, forestry, and kindred pursuits. A 

 meeting of the State Society is always held upon an evening during the State 

 fair, for the purpose of investigating any new fruits which may be presented; 

 for selecting the place for the annual December meeting ; and for the trans- 

 acton of any other business in the interests of the society which may be pre- 

 sented. Other meetings are held upon call of the officers of the society. In 

 addition to the usual number of officers, president, vice-president, secretary 

 and treasurer, there is an ad interim committee of ten members selected from 

 various sections, whose duty it is to make observations of all matters of 

 interest to horticulturists in their several localities, and report results and 

 experiences at the annual meeting. Able and interesting essays and papers 

 are also read at this meeting, by members of the society and also by members 

 of local county societies and often by others from our sister States. A pro- 

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