HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



Green-house Plants and Green-house Flow- 

 ers. — Win. Nevvcomb, chairman. J. II. A^'il- 

 laid, Troy; J. S. Goold, Albany; Vf . A. Mc- 

 Cullocli, Greeubush; William Janes. Bethle- 

 hem. 



Gardens. — Luther Tucker, chairman. B. T. 

 Cushman, Troy, and C. P. Williams, Albany. 



Flowers. — Sanford Howard, Albany, chair- 

 man. E. N. Pratt, Greenbush; J. McD. Mc- 

 Intyre, Albany; E. Corning, jr., Albany; A. 

 March, M. D., Albany. 



Floral Designs, Bouquets, Ornaments, 6(C. — 

 Steplien E. Warren, Troy, cliairman. J. M. 

 Lovt'tt, Albany; Jetterson Mayell, Albany; 

 T. C. Abrams, West Troy. 



Discretionary Premiums. — E. P. Prentice, 

 Bethlehem, cliairman. D. T. Vail, Troy; Wni. 

 Cooi)er, Guilderland; Jacob Henry, Water- 

 vlirit; E. E. Piatt, Albany. 



Essays and on Establishing Synonyms of 

 Fruits. — Dr. E. Emmons, Albany, chairman. 

 Amos Brings, Schagliticoke; Sanford Howard, 

 Albany; John H. Willard. Troy; A. T. Rich- 

 ards, West Troy. 



Vegetables. — R. F. Johnstone, Albany, chair- 

 man. Dennis Belden, Tro"; Dr. Jolm NVilson. 

 Bethlehem; Samuel Morg^u, Albany ; Wm. s! 

 Shepard, Watervliet. 



.Arrangements for Exhibitions. — J. McD. 

 Mclntyre, Albany, chairman. Sanford How- 

 ard, Elislia Dorr, J. Dingwall, Albany, D. D. 

 T. Moore, "Watervliet; "William Thorburn, 

 James Wilson, Erastus II. PeasC; Albany. 



Genesee Valley Horticultural Society. 

 — At tlie annual meeting of this Society, held 

 at Rochester on the 3d Feb. , Jason W. Seward, 

 Esq., was ajjpointed cliairman. in the absence 

 of the president. 



The minutes of the last annual meeting were 

 read and approved. The report of the Trea- 

 surer was also read and approved, showing 

 a balance in his hands at the close of the 

 year of fifty-six dollars. The Society then 

 proceeded to the election of officers and com- 

 mittees for the ensuing year, whereupon the 

 following gentlemen were elected: 



President — Levi A. Ward, Rochester. 



Vice Presidents — Mathew G. Warner, Ro- 

 chester; Henry P. Norton, Brockport; J. J. 

 Thomas, Macedon; Asa Rowe, Sweden; S. 

 Donallan, Greece. 



Cor. Sec'y — Dellon M. Dewey. 



Rec. Sec'y — J. A. Eastman. 



Treasurer — James H. Watts. 



Committees. 

 Fruits. — Patrick Barry, M. G. Warner, J. 

 W. Bissell, Samuel Moulson, Alonzo Frost, 

 Jas. Buchan, John J. Thomas, Jas. C. Camp- 

 bell, Elias Pond, Isaac Hills, W. R. Smith, 

 and L. B. Langworthy. 



Trees, Shi'ubs and Flowers. — Jno. Gray, Jas. 

 hitney, L. Wetherell, Francis Brown, 

 and H. Billings. 

 etables. — Jason W. Seward, James P. 



Fogg, John Rapalje, James Vick, jr., and 

 James Buchan. 



Jiotany. — L. Wetherell, C. P. Dewey, Geo. 

 H. Smith, J. W. Seward, and C. M. Booth. 



Entomology. — L. Wetherell, and J. W. 

 Seward. 



Executive Committee. — Levi A. Ward, Ma- 

 thew G. Warner, Patrick Barry, John Grey, 

 Jason W. Seward, and L. Wetherell. 



On motion of J. W. Bissell, a committee of 

 six were appointed by the Chairman on tlie 

 part of the Society, to co-operate witli the Ex- 

 ecutive Committee of the State Agricultural 

 Society in making arrangements for the next 

 State Fair, and especially to arrange the " Flo- 

 ral Hall." 



The Chairman announced the following gen- 

 tlemen as such Committee: 



Geo. Ellwanger, J. M. Whitney, H. E. 

 Hooker, C. J. Ryan, Joseph Frost, and R. 

 Donallan . 



Mr. J. W. Seward presented specimens of 

 a new variety of Potato, a seedling of Mr. H. 

 N. Langworthy of Irondequoit,whicli has been 

 very successfully cultivated for market for two 

 or three years past, by Mr. Mandeville, of 

 Irondequoit. After some remarks by Mr. 

 Seward and others, it was referred to the com- 

 mittee on vegetables to give a name to said potato 



Mr. J. W. Seward, the special cominitteeap- 

 pointcd at the last annual meeting, for the pur- 

 pose of procuring members to tliis society, and 

 soliciting the co-operation of our citizens in its 

 belialf, having made his report, was reappoint- 

 ed as such committee, together with Mr. W. 

 C. Bloss, for the ensuing year. 



On motion of Mr. P. Barry, the thanks of 

 the society were presented to Mr. J. W. Se- 

 ward for his successful efforts as such special 

 committee during the past year. 



The thanks of the meeting having been pre- 

 sented to the Hon. Levi A. Ward, for a basket 

 of very fine fruit furnished for the use of the 

 society this evening, the meeting thereu^Jon ad- 

 journed. J. A. Eastman, Sec'y. 



Hort. Society for the Valley' of Lake 

 Champlain. — At a convention held at Burling- 

 ton last month, a Horticultural Society for tlie 

 valley of I^ake Champlain, was organized, and 

 the following oflicers appointed: 



President — Rev. John Wheeler. 



Vice Presidents — David Reed, Chittenden 

 county; Rowland T. Bobinson, Addison co.; 

 M. F. Palmer, Franklin co.; Buel Landon, 

 Grand Isle co. ; John W. Baily, Clinton co.; 

 C. M. AVatson, Esse.x co. 



Sec'y— Dr. Wm. C. Hiekok. 



Treasurer — Prof. J. Chancy. 



Standing Fruit Committee. — Jonathan Bat- 

 tey, Jasper Curtis, Albert Carpenter, C. Good- 

 rich, Prof. J. Torrey. 



Prof, of Botany.~J. Torrey, D. D. 



Prof, of Entomology. — Rev. Z. Thompson. 



Prof, of Horticultural Chemistry. — Rev. 

 John Mattocks. 



