1883.] 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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Henry W. Raymond, son of H. J. Raymond in 

 years past editor of the New York Times. The 

 Telegraph was started in 1829, and during all 

 these long years, has been under the sole control 

 of its founder. It has had not only a long career, 

 but a very honorable and useful one. Since the 

 birth of the Telegraph, Germantown has been 

 swallowed up by her younger sister, Philadelphia, 

 which insists on calling it the Twenty-second ward; 



but there is yet a local pride in the old name, and 

 though we shall miss the good old Major from the 

 editorial circle, it is a great satisfaction that the 

 great paper which he founded and' which has so 

 helped to make our local name world renowned, 

 is still to be continued on, in the good work. The 

 best wishes we can offer the new owner will be, 

 that he may continue to have the success which 

 the former so ably earned. 



Horticultural Societies. 



COMMUNICATIONS. 



PRESIDENT WILDER'S ADDRESS. 



Gentlemen and Friends of the American Pomo- 

 logical Society : 



" I still live," but I deeply regret a recent disa- 

 bility from which I may not recover in season to 

 be present on this occasion. Yet as you have so 

 often declined to receive my resignation of the 

 presidency of our association, and have provided a 

 special officer of great ability to occupy the chair 

 in case of my absence, I take it for granted that in 

 this exigency you prefer, in the language of scrip- 

 ture, "a living dog to a dead lion," and thus to re- 

 tain me, not so much for what I now can do, as 

 for what I have done for the objects you seek to 

 promote. 



Our constitution demands of its president an 

 address, and I, therefore, will speak to you once 

 more in regard to the interests and objects which 

 it has to advance, and which I deem worthy of 

 your attention. 



This is the fourth time our Society has assembled 

 in this goodly city at the invitation of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Horticultural Society, to whom, in behalf of 

 our own Association, and in my own behalf, I again 

 present our grateful acknowledgments for its oft 

 repeated courtesies to us, and especially, for its 

 constant co-operation and aid during the lifetime 

 of our Association. 



Gladly, most gladly, do we accept of these hospi- 

 talities so generously tendered to us. Happy, 

 most happy, are we to be here once more in this 

 time-honored city, so renowned for its schools of 

 science, advanced civilization, and benefactions to 

 mankind; here, at the birthplace of that immortal 

 declaration of heaven-born principles of human 

 rights which gave to the world the first great free 

 republic, the most progressive, prosperous and in- 

 dependent nation on the globe; here, where the 

 first society was formed for the promotion of agri- 

 culture, and the first permanent horticultural so- 

 ciety on this continent — both of which, we rejoice 

 to know, are here to-day in a vigorous, green old 

 age; here, where some of the first general efforts 



were made for the promotion of American pomo 

 logy- — efforts which culminated in the estab 

 lishment of this Society, and other similar in- 

 stitutions, — efforts whose merits throughout our 

 immense domain, excite the wonder and admira- 

 tion of the world. Here, too, were the homes of 

 Bartram and Mease, Landreth and Buist, James, 

 Brinckle, and Houghton, and other pioneers and 

 cultivators, whose labors contributed very largely 

 to the advancement of our cause, and whose names, 

 in connection with those of other benefactors of 

 our Society, will be held in grateful remembrance 

 while the blessings of rural art, the charms of na- 

 ture, and the golden fruits of summer and autumn 

 shall gladden the sight and minister to the comfort 

 and happiness of mankind. 



These worthy men, like those others who laid the 

 foundations of our national compact, have finished 

 their labors and gone to receive their reward. But 

 we still live to carry out the noble designs which 

 they originated, and thus to develop the blessings 

 of human freedom and the wonderful resources of 

 our land, and make it more and more worthy of the 

 protection of an independent, enlightened, enter- 

 prising and prosperous people. 



IN MEMORIAM. 



We this day enter on the duties of another bi- 

 ennial term, and while I most heartily congratulate 

 you upon the growth and prosperity of our Society 

 in its beneficent influence — on what it has accom- 

 plished and is still doing — I most earnestly pray 

 that our lives may be prolonged, our energies 

 renewed, and our labors be crowned with con- 

 tinued success; but we cannot forget that death 

 has again entered our ranks, and removed from 

 our circle many old friends and worthy co-laborers 

 of our cause. 



During the interval since our last session, we 

 have sustained greater losses of official and promi- 

 nent associates than in any former like period in 

 the history of our Society. ' In my former address- 

 es I have endeavored to place in our records a 

 reference to those who have been officially or 

 otherwise actually engaged in promoting the ob- 

 jects of this Society, and now I have the melancholy 

 duty of adding to that starred roll of worthy men 



