STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. I/' 



Under article I, the secretary offered an informal report and 

 was given permission to revise and extend so as to include the 

 present meeting. 



The treasurer made an informal report showing the balance 

 in his hands at the present time, and it was accepted. 



The committee chosen at last winter meeting to consider the 

 new plan of work for the society reported, as follows, by D. H. 

 Knowlton, and the report was accepted. 



REPORT. 



''''o the Members of the Maine State Ponwlogica! Society: 



The following extract taken from the records of our last 

 winter meeting will make clear to you how our committee came 

 into being and the object of its mission. — "After the reading of 

 Mr. Gilbert's paper and discussion thereon, Mr. Andrews made 

 the following motion and it was given a passage : 'That Mr. 

 Gilbert's plan for new work be submitted to a special committee 

 of three with instructions to report at the annual meeting of the 

 society.' The president then appointed D. H. Knowlton, ]\Irs. 

 B. T. Townsend, Freeport, and Chas. E. Wheeler, Chesterville, 

 said committee." 



Again, in view of the failure to perfect satisfactory exhibition 

 arrangements with the trustees of the Maine State Agricultural 

 Society, the executive committee of the Maine State Pomological 

 Society at their meeting held in Auburn, April 26th and 27th, 

 it was voted : "That the special committee appointed on Mr. 

 Gilbert's paper be requested to report to the executive committee 

 at an early day their plan of work for the society." 



Your committee, having attended to the duty assigned them, 

 beg leave to offer their report at this time. 



Under our incorporation the ]\laine State Pomological Society 

 was "constituted a corporation for the promotion of fruit cul- 

 ture." The restrictions are contained in the second section, 

 which says : "Said society shall have all the rights, privileges 

 and powers conferred by the laws of this State upon county and 

 local agricultural societies, and shall be subject to all liabilities 

 imposed by existing laws upon such societies, so far as the same 

 are applicable to the objects of this society." 



