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Products," but, in juxtaposition to the Apples and Pears from Connecti- 

 cut and Massachusetts, not more than two-thirds grown, were displayed 

 the tropical fruits of California. The great States which have sprung up 

 so rapidly, in the vast plains that stretch from the Mississippi to the 

 Rocky Mountains, advertised themselves extensively and well. Through 

 State organizations and Railroad Corporations, no pains were spared to 

 proclaim the fatness of the land, so far as the cull and pick of their 

 Fruit-crop could make the same known to advantage. That our modest 

 contribution should reflect no discredit upon our Pomological knowledge 

 and methods, is cf itself partial praise. That it should reward judicious 

 examination, as was the testimony of some who knew too well to esti- 

 mate a collection solely by its extent, may be a satisfaction to those of 

 you who furnished the specimens, to learn. 



Upon one feature of this Pomological Exhibition, however, it would 

 be impossible to enlarge in too strong terms of censure. Massachusetts, 

 Ohio and ^ew York were wholly unrepresented upon the Committee 

 of Judges. The exclusion of their statues from funeral processions in the 

 decadence of Ancient Rome, but served to recall to mind even more vividly 

 the patriots Brutus and Cassius. And who of us, in looking through the 

 roll of those who had been selected to adjudicate upon " Noithern Pom- 

 ological Products," could fail to note with amazement the absence of 

 such names as John A. Warder, Patrick Barry, Charles Doavn- 

 IXG, John J. Thomas, and, — darm et venerdbile nomen I — Marshall 

 P. Wilder. Honesty is an indispensable qualification for a Just judge, 

 but should not capacity also be deemed essential ? 



The American Po3IOlogical Society having accepted an invita- 

 tion to a formal reception, at the hands of the Pennsylvania Horticultural 

 Societ}', on the evening of Friday, September 2.5th, ult., and requested 

 this Societ}' to accredit delegates thereto, the following named gentle- 

 men were duly commissioned under our corporate seal, viz. : President 

 William T. Merrifiekl, and Messrs. Stephen Salisbury, D. Waldo Lin- 

 coln, J. Henry Hill, Francis H. Dewey, Alexander H. Bullock, George 

 W. Richardson, George E. Francis, O. B. Hadwen, Edward W. Lincoln, 

 Edward Earle, Paul Whitin John C. Newton, ]^athaniel Paine, Ste- 

 phen Salisbury Jr., Henry Phelps, Henry L. Parker, William H. Earlo, 

 Xewell Wood, William T. Harlow, George Cruickshanks, William W. 

 Cook, Frank J. Kinney and Thomas M. Lamb. Owing to the occurrence 

 of our own Annual Autumnal Exhibition, so early in the ensuing 

 week, 3^our Secretary could not await this Reception, and has therefore 

 no personal experience of it to relate. Other delegates, however, des- 

 cribe it as quite as successful as could be expected, when the attractions 



