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tures and essays on various subjects connected with the science and 

 practice of Horticulture; and in such other methods as shall be deemed 

 advantaseous by the Association. 



Art. XII. There shall be two meetings for the exhibition of horti- 

 cultural jtroducts in every year, as follows: first, the summer meeting, 

 for the smaller fruits and earlier flowers and vegetables, to be held in 

 June, at Albany, Poughkeepsie, and Newbnrgh alternately; and, sec- 

 ond, the autumnal meeting, for the larger variety of hardy fruits and 

 late floral and vegetable productions, to be held in September or Octo- 

 ber, in the city of New York. There shall be an annual address deliv- 

 ered at the autumnal meeting; and lectures and essays,as herein provid- 

 ed, at the summer and other meetings. 



The following is the list of officers:— 



J. Buel, Albany, President. A. J. Downing, Newburgh, Corres- 

 ponding Secretary. N. G. Carnes, New York, Recording Secretary. 

 G. C. Thorburn,"New York. Treasurer. 



Vice-Presidents. — Philip S. Van Rensselaer, Albany County. Ed- 

 ward P. Livinsston, Columbia Co. E. Holbrook, Duchess Co. N. 

 Becar, Kings Co. Alexander Walsh, Rensselaer Co. John Torrey, 

 New York Co. C. Ludlow, Orange Co. R. Arden, Putnam Co. 

 J. E. DeKay, Queen's Co. Eleazer Lord, Rockland Co. Samuel 

 Youns, (Col.) Saratoga Co, A. B. Hasbrouck, Ulster Co. James A. 

 Hamilton, Winchester Co. William Emerson, Staten Island. 



Executive Committee. Poujrhkeepsie and Duchess Co. :— Theo- 

 dore Allen, J. R. Stuyvesant, J. W. Knevels. Newburgh and Orange 

 Co.: Henry Robinson, J. F. Betts, C. Downing. Albany: J. M'Don- 

 ald' M'Intyre, William Thorburn, Jesse Buel. New York: John J. 

 Palmer, James Pennell, (M. D.) J. A. Perry, James K. Hamilton, 

 John Groshon, William R. Rushton. 



The first meetins; of the Association for Exhibition, Sic, will be held 

 in New York on the 27fh of September. Gentlemen throughout the 

 whole valley of the Hudson, are requested to bring flowers at the first 

 exhibition, and such horticultural and agricultural products, as may 

 serve to make up a com|)arative exhibition of the various'fruits, flowers, 

 and vegetables produced upon this diversified territory. The Associa- 

 tion will award medals and other premiums, for all extra fine productions, 

 new varieties of fruits of superior excellence, &c. Stc. We are request- 

 ed to state that gentlemen residing at a distance, are invited to send any- 

 remarkable specimens of fruits, or flowers, for exhibition. 



We congratulate our friends in New York, upon the formation of this 

 association", and are confident, from the standing and talent of the gen- 

 tlemen interested in getting it up, that it will advance a taste for horti- 

 culture, in all its branches. We trust all will come forward at the first 

 exhibition. — Ed. 



Art. V. Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. 



The monthly meeting of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society was 

 held on Tuesday evening, the 21st of August, in the Hall under the Athe- 

 nseum. The President in the chair. 



