

The American Pomological Society. — This national society has just 

 closed its eleventh biennial session at St. Louis, Mo., under the most favorable 

 auspices. The attendance was unusually large, the discussions quite spirited, 

 and the exhibition of fruit magnificent ; there being of grapes six hundred and 

 eighty dishes, of peaches two hundred and twelve, of pears seven hundred and 

 forty-five, and of apples eight hundred and two, with over a hundred samples 

 of wine. 



On Wednesday morning, the society was called to order on motion of N. J. 

 Colman, Esq., editor of "The Rural World ;" and the members were requested 

 to withdraw from the splendid hall of exhibition, and to leave the heavily-laden 

 tables, to assemble for business in the grand auditorium below, — a fine room, 

 well adapted for lectures, discussions, and the transaction of business. 



H. T. Mudd, President of the Missouri Horticultural Society, delivered a very 

 appropriate address of welcome, greeting the association upon its first appear- 

 ance on that side of the Father of Waters. He hailed the arrival, among the 

 pioneers of civilization, of the men who were representatives of a more advanced 

 and the highest type of American horticulture. 



The venerable-looking Arthur Bryant of Princeton, 111., where he has long 

 been known as a prominent and successful laborer in the good C3use, was 

 called upon to offer the right hand of fellowship on behalf of the numerous dele- 

 gates in attendance from the great empire of Illinois. This he did most gra- 

 ciously and acceptably. 



Then came Dr. C. W. Spaulding, the President of the Mississippi-valley 

 Grape-growers' Society. He backed up his welcome by pointing to the magnifi- 

 cent display of wines exhibited upon this occasion by the association he repre- 



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