44 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1889. 



formed, who have bought a million acres in Osceola, Folk and 

 Desoto counties, and have a thousand acres in sugar cane this 

 year. The president of the company, who had been engaged in 

 the sugar planting in Louisiana, claimed that the sugar cane 

 raised in Florida was the better of the two. He reports forty 

 tons to the acre, one hundred and eighty pounds to the ton. 



For the first time in the history of the American Fomological 

 Society, it has turned aside from its former custom of holding 

 its sessions in September, to meet the wants of the Middle and 

 Northern States, to join with an extreme Southern State, and be 

 introduced to her pomological claims upon this organization. 

 What she has shown in her infancy argues well for her future. 



"Which is respectfully submitted. 



F. M. MARBLE. 



