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Reports from the various state committees were then called for hy the 

 president, and those handed in were placed in the hands of the secretary 

 for publication. 



The convention then proceeded to discuss the merits of the fruits brought 

 forward by the committee, and occupied the lime till two o'clock, when it 

 adjourned till three. 



At three o'clock the president occupied the chair. 



Dr. Herman Wendell, of Albany, offered a preamble and resolution in 

 reference to the consolidation of the two conventions, so that but one 

 meeting might be had in a year, which was adopted. The President ap- 

 pointed a committee for the purpose of conferring with the other society. 

 The following is the preamble and resolution : — 



Whereas, The National Pomological Convention held at Buffalo, in Sep- 

 tember of 1848, under the auspices of the N. Y. State Agricultural Soci- 

 ety, composed of delegates from 15 States and the two Canadas, was the 

 first general convention of such character ever convened in the United 

 States, and whereas that convention unanimously resolved that hereafter 

 an annual convention of like character should be held, under the title of 

 the North American Pomological Convention, that the first meeting with 

 that title, should be held in the autumn of 1849, at the place where the 

 great Fair of the New York State Agricultural Society was to be held, 

 and on the day succeeding the close of said Fair, therefore we consider this 

 convention entitled by courtesy to perpetuate itself, but being aware that a 

 convention of an analogous character was held in the city of New York, in 

 the autumn of 1848, and that said convention organized itself into a perma- 

 nent association, under the title of the \merican Congress of Fruit Grow- 

 ers, which is to assemble in said city of New York, on the second day of 

 October next, and believing that the advancement of Pomological Science, 

 as well as the inclination and interests of pomologists throughout this con- 

 tinent, will be best promoted by a merging of the two apparent conflicting 

 associations into one general organization for future operations, therefore, 

 be it 



Resolved, by this convention, that a committee of five be designated by 

 its president, whose duty it shall be to attend the coming session of the 

 American Congress of Fruit Growers, and confer with the said congress, 

 or a committee whom they may select, in relation to the meeting of the 

 two associations, and, as far as this convention is interested, the settling of 

 questions of priority of organization, places of next meeting, and title of 

 association, shall be left to the committees whom the two organizations 

 may appoint, and that we will exert ourselves to induce a general attend- 

 ance of those interested, wherever the joint committee determine the next 

 convention shall be held ; but we cannot omit giving it as our opinion, that 

 the cause of Pomological Science will be most promoted, and the feelings 

 of the great mass of pomologists best satisfied, if the next meeting should 

 be held at Cincinnati, or some other western city. 



The president then named Dr. Herman Wendell, Prof. James J. MapeSj 



