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proceeded to examine the credentials of the members present, who an- 

 swered to their names, and to read letters from various societies appointing 

 delegates. 



The president then remarked, that, if there was no objection, the presi- 

 dents and vice presidents of horticultural societies throughout the country, 

 who might be present, be invited to take a seat with the oflicers of the 

 Congress. 



And, on motion of S. Walker, Esq., it was voted that the same invita- 

 tion be extended to the president and vice presidents of the North Ameri- 

 can Pomological Convention. 



On motion of Hon. B. V. French, it was voted that any gentlemen 

 present, who were interested in the cultivation of fruits, be invited to take 

 seats in the convention. 



A committee of three, consisting of Messrs. Saul, of Newburgh, N. Y., 

 S. H. Colton, of Worcester, Mass., and W. Reid, of New Jersey, was 

 then appointed to receive and report a list of the fruits exhibited before the 

 convention. 



Mr. A. J. Downing then moved that a committee of six, with the presi- 

 dent, ex-ojjicio, be appointed a committee of conference in regard to the 

 union of the North American Pomological Convention and the American 

 Congress of Fruit Growers, — and A. J. Downing, Newburg, S. Walker, 

 Roxbury, Dr, Brinckle, Philadelphia, Dr. Munson, New Haven, and A. 

 Mcintosh, Cleaveland, were appointed that committee. 



The chairman of the General Fruit Committee, A. J. Downing, then 

 proceeded to lay before the meeting a rejected list of fruits, and the 

 forenoon was occupied in discussing and disposing of the same. The list, 

 as finally passed, rejects over 100 kinds of fruit, mostly pears, but as we 

 have no room to insert it now, we shall do so when the Proceedings are 

 published. 



A letter was read, from the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, offering 

 to furnish a hall, &c., provided the convention should accept of their invi- 

 tation to meet in Philadelphia another year. 



The convention then took a recess. 



Afternoon Session. — The first business was the report of the committee 

 of conference appointed in the morning, which was read by the president 

 as chairman of that committee. 



The committee appointed for the purpose of conferring with the com- 

 mittee sent to the Congress by the North American Pomological Conven- 

 tion, on the propriety and practicability of uniting or consolidating the two 

 associations, respectfully report : — 



That, finding the joint committee were fully convinced of the advantage, 

 in all respects, to the country at large, and to the cause of pomology, of 

 having but one national convention of this kind, which should, as far as 

 possible, embody all the talent and experience of the land, — a conviction 

 which this Congress has always firmly held, — they had great pleasure and 

 unanimity in immediately adopting the following resolutions : — 



1. iJeso/reJ, That the conventions hitherto known as the North A.nieri- 



