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often as necessary, in order that they may he enabled to consult on the va- 

 rious matters referred to them ; they are empowered to supply vacancies in 

 the committees, — which should consist of at least five members, — with such 

 gentlemen as they may deem competent, from various parts of their respect- 

 ive States, and, if it is impossible, from any cause, for a committee to as- 

 semble torrether, the chairmen are requested to communicate with the seve- 

 ral members thereof, by letter. 



2nd. Each member of a State committee is requested to collect all the 

 information in his power, as to the value of various varieties of fruits, in his 

 particular section of a State, he is specially requested to designate such as 

 have proved to be worthless, specifying the particular disease or diseases, 

 to which the fruit or tree may be subject, or any other objectionable infor- 

 mation in regard to them, and, in giving this information, he is requested to 

 state, as nearly as possible, the character of the soils in which the trees 

 may be growing, when they prove invaluable or vtce versa ; the chairmen 

 of the respective committees are requested to embody all this information 

 in their reports, specifying the particular locality of the State from whence 

 it comes, and also giving the name of the member of the committee, from 

 whom it may be derived. 



3d. If, in either of the several States or provinces, there are new and 

 valuable seedling varieties of fruits, not already described or known to the 

 pomological world, and which, in all their characteristics, will bear a strict 

 application of rule first, adopted by the convention ; the committees are re- 

 quested to describe and name them in their reports. 



4th. If neither the chairman, or any other member, of a State committee, 

 can make it convenient to attend the sitting of the North American Pomo- 

 logical Convention, in the autumn of 1849, the said chairman is hereby re- 

 quested to transmit his report, by mail, to B. P. Johnson, Esq., Secretary 

 of the New York State Agricultural Society, at Albany, as early as the 

 first day of September, 1849, in order that it may be laid before the con- 

 vention, on the first day of its session. 



Committees of five or more persons are appointed from each State in the 

 Union, and the list is so long, we have not room to copy it entire ; we 

 therefore give the name of the Chairman from each State. 



Maine. — Dr. E. Holmes, Augusta. 



New Hampshire. — S. E. Cones, Portsmouth. 



Vermont. — C. Goodrich, Burlington. 



Massachusetts. — Gen. H. A. S. Dearborn, Roxbury. 



Rhode Island. — S. H. Smith, Providence. 



Connecticut. — S. D. Pardee, New Haven. 



New York. — Herman Wendell, M. D., Albany. 



New Jersey. — Roswell L. Colt, Esq., Palerson. 



Pennsylvania. — \Vm. H. Dillingham, Philadelphia. 



Delaware. — Hon. J. M. Clayton, Wilmington. 



Maryland. — C. B. Calvert, Esq., Prince George Co. 



District of Columbia. — G. Riggs, Esq., Washington. 



Virginia. — Yardley Taylor, Esq., Purcell's Store, P. 0. 



