American Pomological Society. 



WE received too late for acknowledgement in June issue, from Hon. Marshall P. 

 Wilder, the proof sheet of a circular pertaining to the American Pomological 

 Society. We now have in hand a duplicate of the same, with programme and pre- 

 mium list attached for the coming meeting of the Society, to be held in Boston, Sept. 

 10th to 13th. It appears that the most ample and complete preparations are already 

 perfected by the Massachussetts Horticultural Society, and other generous parties, 

 to make the fourteenth biennial session of this National Association of Fruit 

 Grrowers a grand success. The collection of fruits there gathered from the hills and 

 valleys of New England, the sunny South, the blooming prairies of the West, and 

 from the more genial clime of the Pacific Slope, cannot but make this occasion one 

 of no ordinary interest and importance in the history of American Pomology. 

 President Wilder writes us : — "The interest will be increased by visits to noted 

 places, and by the grand Plant Exhibition of the Massachussetts Horticultural 

 Society at the same time." 



The prime object or purpose of the Pomological Society, is to bring together intel- 

 ligent and practical fruit men from all parts of the country, and in council, by a free 

 interchange of experience and observation, to collect and diffuse such researches and 

 discoveries as are being made in the wonderful progress in this branch of national 

 industry. It is true, as has been said, that horticultural journals and horticultural 

 societies may be considered the common schools of the art. But a National Congress 

 of Fruit Gi-rowers, like the American Pomological Society, takes still higher ground, 

 and may properly be considered as the University of Horticulture for the whole 

 country. 



Fruit growers everywhere, throughout our widely extended country, should heartily 

 respond to the call for this meeting, by contributions of fruit, and by the enrollment 

 of their names as members of the Association. The Society has no other resource 

 for means to cover the publication of its transactions and incidental expenses than 

 what is derived from its membership fees. Persons wishing to become members, and 

 thereby entitle themselves to the next volume of the Society's transactions, will 

 address Thomas P. James, Treasurer, Cambridge, Mass. Twenty dollars consti- 

 tutes a life membership ; four dollars a biennial member. The coming volume will 

 be one of special interest and value to every fruit grower in the land. Among the 

 many valuable papers it will contain, one of great value is expected from Professor 

 Agussiz on "The Geological Age of Fruit Bearing Plants." 

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