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lowered, but raised. Twenty-five years ago, every new fruit of good quality was 

 at once recommended for more or less extensive cultivation : if a good bearer, it 

 was so much the better ; if a hardy and vigorous tree, better still ; but quality 

 was all that was deemed indispensable : while to-day a fruit must combine, in 

 a good degree, all these, and many other points, or be at once passed by ; and 

 many of those then thought most desirable are now on the rejected list. We 

 hear no more of varieties which, though not of sufficient excellence for exten- 

 sive cultivation, were yet so good, that ' a single tree should be in every large 

 collection.' A sort worthy of no more extensive cultivation than that is not 

 worth growing at all, unless it may be, as in a museum, for its historical value. 



" Our society has brought together, from more than thirty states and provinces, 

 the most intelligent, experienced, sagacious, and skilful cultivators, who have 

 taught each other, and made the knowledge of one the property of all. Its 

 example has led to the formation of similar associations in England, France, and 

 Belgium, and of local associations in our own country. It may fearlessly ask to 

 be judged by its published proceedings, which, in their reports of discussions, 

 reports of committees, catalogues, and papers on various pomological subjects, 

 embody, in a condensed form, such a mass of information on this science — the 

 best thoughts of the best cultivators throughout our land — as is possessed by no 

 other nation on earth. Instead of the fifty-four varieties recommended in 1848, 

 our catalogue now contains the names of five hundred and sixty-one fruits ; viz., 

 a hundred and seventy-eight apples, a hundred and twenty-two pears, forty-three 

 cherries, fifty-five peaches, six nectarines, eleven apricots, thirty-three plums, 

 three quinces, eighteen native grapes, twenty-two foreign grapes, eighteen cur- 

 rants, thirteen gooseberries, twelve raspberries, two blackberries, and twenty- 

 five strawberries. And the list of a hundred and twenty-six varieties, rejected 

 in 1849, has grown to six hundred and twenty-five ; viz., a hundred and twenty- 

 six apjales, three hundred and fifty-one pears, five apricots, thirty-two cherries, 

 two grapes, thirty-one plums, three raspberries, and seventy-five strawberries ; 

 making a total of one thousand one hundred and eighty-six varieties of fruit on 

 which the society has set the stamp of its approval or rejection." 



After the conclusion of the address, the Treasurer made his report, which 

 showed a small balance on hand. 



Mr. George W. Campbell of Ohio reported, on behalf of the Nominating 

 Committee, the following list : — 



For President. — Marshall P. Wilder. For Vice-Presidents. — Alabama, L. 

 F. Mellen ; Arkansas, J. H. Ingram ; California, R. T. Perkins ; Canada, Charles 

 Arnold ; Colorado, Charles Pauls ; Connecticut, D. S. Dewey ; Delaware, E. 

 Tatnall ; District of Columbia, W. Saunders ; Ftorida, J. W. Weed ; Georgia, 

 P. J. Berckmans ; Illinois, Arthur Bryant, sen. ; Indiana, I. D. G. Nelson ; 

 Idwa, D. W. Kauffman ; Kansas, Charles B. Lines ; Kentucky, Lawrence Young ; 

 Louisiana, Dr. M. A Swasey ; Maine, S. L. Goodale ; Maryland, W. C. Wilson; 

 Massachusetts, C. M. Hovey ; Michigan, William Bort ; Mississippi, J. M. 

 Stone ; Missouri, B. F. Edwards ; Minnesota, D. A. Robertson ; Montana, 

 Nicholas Waugh; Nebraska, Dr. H. Link ; New Hampshire, Frederick Smythe ; 



