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Dr. J. A Warder, of Ohio, and P. Barry, of Rochester, N. Y., Vice 
Presidents ; Thomas P. James, Treasurer ; Judge Sley, Charles M. 
‘Hovey and Robert Manning, of Boston ; Wm. Parry, of N. J.; 
P. Berckmans and Charles Downing. Other distinguished guests 
- present were Count Dassie, of ey ; Profs. Garde, from Norway, 
and Elias, from Egypt; Rusten Effendi, Turkish Commissioner ; 
several Canadian Commissioners ; Gov. Anthony, of Kansas ; Prof. 
Thurber, of New York, and Messrs. Saunders, of Washington, 
Parsons of Flushing, Breckenridge of Kentucky, and G. E. Mor- 
row, Secretary of the American Agricultural Congréss. In addi- 
tion to these, there were present members of the ladies’ committee 
and several officers of the United States Centennial Commission 
and Board of Finance. 
We present the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s programme 
and Centennial desert table for the year 1876, to be preserved by 
our Society. 
We have here sketched a few of the many things we saw, felt, 
smelled, tasted, and heard, for it required all the senses to take in 
this vast panorama of productions and inventions, the handiwork 
of woman as well as man. We have not attempted to describe all 
that we saw and heard, but spoken only of that which we consid- 
ered interesting and instructive to our Society and the fruit 
_ growers of our State. 
Wyman ELLior. 
PART V.—EXHIBITION oF PENNSYLVANIA HoRTICULTURAL 
SocrETyY. 
We cannot conclude this report without referring to the meet- 
ing of the old Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, an institution 
which has grown very strong in the popular affection. The 
annual meeting took place Sept. 12 to 14, according to announce- 
ment, and through the courtesy of Mr. Harrison, their secretary, 
your delegates were presented with a free ticket to the exhibition 
and also to the reception given on the evening of the 14th. 
Occurring at the same time of the meeting of the American 
Pomological Society at the Centennial, it proved a much greater 
success than could have been anticipated. Fruits were particu- 
larly beautiful and abundant, and judging from what we saw 
oo must stand in the front rank as a fruit-growing 
tate. 
President Wilder, of Boston, had a fine collection of pears, as 
also did Hovey & Co., of Cambridge, Mass., besides some others, 
The Fruit-Growers’ Society of Potomac, contributed some choice 
specimens of fruits, and the finest peaches we saw were from Mt. 
Vernon, Va. 
The collection of plants was unusually fine and well grown, and 
~ embraced a large number of beautiful novelties. The designs and 
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