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inate variety, and sets its blossoms well. We consider it a great acqui- 

 sition. The vines are very hardy. — Ed. 



North American Pomological Convention. — Since our notice of the meet- 

 ing of this convention at Syracuse next September, we have received a 

 7iew circular issued by the.coramittee, with the names of each member attached 

 thereto. Tnere was, indeed, no necessity of issuing a second circular, 

 only to show the utter falsity of the assertions made in the editorial notice 

 in the Horticulturist, which we alluded to in our last. Although we have 

 anticipated the doings of the committee in that notice, yet we cannot omit 

 the publication of this circular : — 



"The undersigned, a committee of the above convention, who were 

 appointed at the meeting held in Buffalo last September to report such 

 plans for the organization of future conventions — should it be deemed advi- 

 sable to hold them — as might be deemed necessary to carry out success- 

 fully the objects for which they were to meet, agreed, after consultation, as 

 part of their plan, to appoint committees for each State, Territory, and the 

 Canadas, whose duty it should be to report the results of their observa- 

 tions and consultations in relation to matters suggested for their action in a 

 circular — (which was issued by us and sent to each one of them) — on the 

 first day of the assemblage of the convention, which was, by unanimous 

 resolution, agreed should be held in the autumn of 1849. 



The committee have had their attention called to an editorial in the Hor- 

 ticulturist for March, in which it is stated that the North American Pomo- 

 logical Convention is a defunct convention, and that the State committees 

 have received the compliment from a committee which does not exist, or 

 by an authority unknown. Without intending in any way to comment on 

 the article alluded to, the committee think it their duty to remark, that, by 

 a perusal of the report of the proceedings of the Buffalo Convention, it will 

 be seen that the report of this committee, making the convention a national 

 and a permanent one, was adopted unanimously ; that it is entirely uncon- 

 nected with the New York State Agricultural Society, and that the desig- 

 nation of the time and place for its next meeting, where the great fair of 

 that society is to be held, was done for the better accommodation of the 

 public who are in the habit of attending it from all partsof the country, and 

 also as a compliment to that society, in acknowledgment of the great ben- 

 efit they had conferred on horticulture, by being \\ie first to move in calling 

 a National Pomological Convention. The committee, owing to the hur- 

 ried close of the Convention at Buffalo, had not time to concoct, or submit 

 fully, their plans for the consideration of the convention, and, in doing it 

 thus far afterwards, they conceive that they are carrying out the true spirit 

 and intent of their appointment, and that their action will meet with the 

 approbation of all concerned. 



The committee, therefore, hope, that the gentlemen appointed will not 

 be deterred, by the article above alluded to, from attention to the several 

 duties which have been submitted for their action, as the North American 

 Pomological Convention will convene at Syracuse, in the state of New 

 York, on the 14th day of September next, at 10 o'clock A. M. — it being 



